Tony Marabella

[ctgrumpybear]

Any remember the case of Tony Marabella an low level minor league baseball player who had amnesia and somehow became an better baseball player.

Anyone else like me think this case was all BS and sounds more like he just had an little hot streak for an player

[bell83]

I felt a little bad for him. I seem to remember hearing he got traded for "some bats and a player to be named later." I mean, damn....getting traded for some bats? That's like Penny Lane getting traded to Humble Pie for 50 bucks and a case of Heineken...

[ctgrumpybear]

Originally Posted by bell83

I felt a little bad for him. I seem to remember hearing he got traded for "some bats and a player to be named later." I mean, damn....getting traded for some bats? That's like Penny Lane getting traded to Humble Pie for 50 bucks and a case of Heineken...

Was that him because I remember that player who made the news for that few years ago pass away

[1990 UM fan]

"Antonio Marabella, born in the early 1970s and raised in Saint-Leonard, was considered one of the Montréal Expos baseball organization’s prospects with the highest potential. He signed a contract with the team in 1989, when he was only 16, but his career never really panned out, and in 1995, he was released from the organization. By 1998, Marabella’s baseball career had come to an end. He chose a new path, supposedly becoming involved in loansharking, and reportedly associating with the Montréal Mafia.

On December 1st, 1999, Marabella, his brother, Mario, André Boyer and Frank Martorana, a reputed Montréal Mafia lieutenant with links to Vito Rizzuto, were charged with extortion. According to a Journal de Montréal article, the alleged victim, Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, owned half of a Japanese restaurant with Frank Martorana’s wife. After a business disagreement, Martorana and several henchmen allegedly paid Tremblay, threatened him and forced him to give up $75,000. Two weeks later, on June 25th, the accused allegedly paid Tremblay another visit, this time at an art gallery he owned, where they supposedly stole paintings worth an estimated $150,000.

All charges against Tony Marabella would be dropped in September 2002. His brother Mario, André Boyer and Frank Martorana would plead guilty. The first two were fined $2,500 and $5,000, respectively, while the third was sentenced to two years of house arrest. Marabella was again arrested on January 18th, 2001, while out on bail for the aforementioned incident, this time on charges of loansharking. Police picked Marabella up at a Jean-Talon Street Italian café, out of which he allegedly operated his racket. During a search of the former ball player’s home, police reportedly found a loaded firearm, $65,000 in cash and a list of debtors.

One of those debtors, a cab driver, had approached authorities in November to complain about Marabella’s alleged activities. The cab driver had borrowed $5,000 at five per cent interest a week, and after paying a total of $11,000 over a period of a year, still owed $8,000. Marabella plead guilty in June 2002, according to information published in the Montréal Gazette, and was fined $3,000. He received three years probation for possession of the firearm."

[bell83]

Originally Posted by ctgrumpybear

Was that him because I remember that player who made the news for that few years ago pass away

I thought it was....maybe I'm wrong.

[lashlarue]

Originally Posted by bell83

I thought it was....maybe I'm wrong.

The minor leaguer who was traded for bats was John Odom. I believe he committed suicide. He was constantly taunted after the infamous trade with opposing teams playing the theme to Batman whenever he came up to the plate and so forth.

[bell83]

Originally Posted by lashlarue

The minor leaguer who was traded for bats was John Odom. I believe he committed suicide. He was constantly taunted after the infamous trade with opposing teams playing the theme to Batman whenever he came up to the plate and so forth.

[rhzunam]

Originally Posted by lashlarue

The minor leaguer who was traded for bats was John Odom. I believe he committed suicide. He was constantly taunted after the infamous trade with opposing teams playing the theme to Batman whenever he came up to the plate and so forth.

Apparently he died from an accidental overdose.