Darren Daulton

The Philadelphia Phillies are the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in American professional sports. Through 2025, more than 2,000 players had worn a Phillies uniform, but few left as indelible a mark as Darren “Dutch” Daulton. Phillies lifer John Vukovich declared, “I played with better players. I’ve coached better players. But in 32 years I never saw a bigger leader. For me, he set the standard of being a man.”1

A three-time All-Star who spent all or part of 14 seasons (1983, 1985-1997) with Philadelphia, Daulton ranked first all-time among Phillies catchers in walks and second in homers, RBIs, slugging, and on-base percentage entering 2026. He was voted the starting catcher on the 2003 “All-Vet” (Veterans Stadium) Team. He is a member of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, the Reading (Pennsylvania) Baseball Hall of Fame, and the Phillies’ Wall of Fame.

Early in his career, Daulton was known for his movie star good looks, low batting average, and chronic injuries. But in 1992, he became one of just four catchers – along with Hall of Famers Roy Campanella, Johnny Bench, and Gary Carter – to lead the National League in RBIs.2 The following year, Daulton was the alpha male on the testosterone-laden 1993 NL pennant-winning Phillies. He retired as a World Series champion with the Florida Marlins in 1997, when he was The Sporting News’s Comeback Player of the Year.

Daulton was rated the top catcher in Phillies history by MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki.3 The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ranked him the 25th-greatest catcher of all time. James noted “An interesting thing about Daulton is that although he had knee surgery every winter, in his career he was 50-for-60 as a base stealer and almost never grounded into a double play. He compared Daulton to catchers Gene Tenace and Mickey Tettleton for their shared ability to avoid double plays since all three “hit fly balls rather than grounders and were not afraid to take a walk with a man on base.”4

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Darren Arthur Daulton was born on January 3, 1962, in Arkansas City, Kansas. He was the younger son of David Harold Daulton Sr. and Carol Howarth Daulton. David worked for Woods Lumber, the Santa Fe Railroad, Arkansas City’s Chamber of Commerce, and Skyline Mobile Homes before starting his own construction company. Carol was a bookkeeper and notary. Darren’s childhood friends called him Double Dutch after his shared initials with the jump-rope game; Dutch endured as his lifelong nickname. 

Darren started playing Little League on his brother Dave Jr.’s 8-year-old team, which was coached by their dad. He recalled, “My dad tossed me a catcher’s mitt when I was 6 and he told me ‘That’s your position.’ Even in the winter, we’d clear snow in the driveway to play catch.”5 Dutch had to stop playing with the older boys after parents from opposing teams complained about his eligibility. A gifted natural athlete, Daulton was the 80-pound Kansas state wrestling champion as an 11-year-old.6

Dave Sr. continued coaching Darren through Babe Ruth League. At Arkansas City High School, Daulton lettered in football, wrestling, and baseball. He excelled at cornerback and was starting quarterback as a senior, leading the Bulldogs to a 12-0 record and the 1979 Kansas 3A State Championship. As a wrestler, Darren lettered twice, placing fourth in the state as a 132-pound junior and second as a 145-pound senior.

However, baseball was his first love. He was the starting varsity catcher his last three years. Coach Mike West described Daulton as “a five-tool player who always gave his very best whenever he stepped on to the field and he wouldn’t tolerate anything less from his teammates. His passion, selflessness, work ethic, and integrity were truly exceptional.”7 Darren also played American Legion ball and with a semipro team called “The Wichita.”8

While attending Cowley County Community College, Daulton was one of four catchers selected by the Phillies in the 1980 June amateur draft, a 25th-round pick (628th overall). The slender, 6-foot-2 Daulton signed through scouts Dave Burroughs and Don Williams and quickly surmised that he needed to bulk up. “The Phillies had drafted a big catcher named Henry ‘Lebo’ Powell in the first round,” Daulton recalled. “I noticed this huge guy on the same plane as me. When we got off the plane, he yanked his bag from the overhead compartment, and I saw the name tag ‘Lebo Powell.’ I knew that I needed to hit the weight room real soon and real often.”9

Roly de Armas, manager of the Helena (Montana) Phillies, recognized Dutch’s charisma in the rookie-level Pioneer League that summer, saying, “Even as a young kid, you could tell he was the leader of the group. Everybody gravitated right to him.”10 Daulton advanced to the Spartanburg (South Carolina) Phillies in the Low-A South Atlantic League in 1981, then the Hampton, Virginia-based Peninsula Pilots in the High-A Carolina League in 1982. He started 1983 with the Reading (Pennsylvania) Phillies and made the Double-A Eastern League All-Star Team. On September 25, 1983, Daulton made his major-league debut in St. Louis, catching the final frame of a 10-inning win. His first hit was a single to left off Pirates reliever Cecilio Guante, on October 1.

In 1984, Daulton played for the Portland Beavers in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League. He led the team in most offensive categories despite missing the second half of the season with right shoulder tendinitis. Daulton returned to Portland to begin 1985, but Philadelphia called him up in April after Bo Díaz was injured. In his first start, he had two hits and threw out Cardinals speedster Willie McGee attempting to steal. Daulton strained his right shoulder and missed more than two months. He returned to the majors after a rehabilitation assignment and had his first career two-homer game at Wrigley Field on August 17.

Daulton was the Phillies’ number-one catcher in 1986, starting 44 of the first 64 games. But he tore his left ACL in a gruesome home plate collision with Cardinals catcher Mike Heath on June 21. Despite three surgeries and months of physical therapy, it remained excruciating to extend the knee. He lamented, “You come back from something like that, a complete reconstruction of the knee, and there’s a lot of pain. Then you have more surgery at the end of each year, just to clean the thing out. The people boo and you want to explain, to tell them about the pain, but that’s not the way it works.”11

Dutch appeared in 53 games in 1987 and 58 games in 1988 backing up free agent signee Lance Parrish, the three-time Gold Glover and perennial All-Star. Daulton’s ’88 season ended on August 27, when he broke his right hand punching a wall after a game-ending strikeout.

Parrish was traded to the Angels, but Phillies GM Lee Thomas considered backstops Tom Nieto and Steve Lake to replace him during spring training 1989. As it happened, Daulton remained injury-free all season and became the starting catcher. After Mike Schmidt’s unexpected May 29 retirement, the Phillies rebuilt their nucleus, trading Chris James to the Padres for John Kruk and Randy Ready on June 2, and dealing Juan Samuel to the Mets for Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowell on June 18.

Kruk recalled, “When I got to Philadelphia and saw Darren Daulton play, I said, ‘We need a catcher.’ He wasn’t hitting back then, but I didn’t know his knees were so bad. Then I started hanging out with him after the game, and I knew that mentally, he knew what was going on.”12 Dutch batted just .201 with eight homers in 131 games but had the first five-hit game of his career, on September 20 against the Cubs.

That December, Daulton married Lynne Austin, Playboy’s July 1986 Playmate of the Month and the first Hooters girl. Scantily clad in the restaurant’s trademark white tank top and orange shorts, Lynne was impossible to ignore on a huge centerfield billboard at Jack Russell Stadium, the Phillies’ spring training home in Clearwater, Florida. Later, when the couple’s infant son Zachary Ryan visited the clubhouse, Jason Grimsley declared, “That kid has 0% chance of being ugly.”13

Thomas was unable to sign free agent Tony Peña or trade for Sandy Alomar Jr. to upgrade Philadelphia’s catching situation for 1990. Dutch persevered and led NL catchers in games, walks, runs, OBP, and assists to earn a three-year, $6.75 million contract. After Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden hit two Phillies on August 9 at Shea Stadium, Philadelphia’s Pat Combs plunked him in retaliation. Gooden attempted to charge the mound, but Daulton intercepted him from behind and repeatedly punched him in the back of the head. The memorable, 20-minute brawl resulted in seven players and coaches’ ejections. On August 15, Daulton caught Terry Mulholland’s no-hitter against the Giants.

The Phillies’ 1991 season came to a crashing halt around 1:00 AM on May 6, when Dykstra totaled his Mercedes while driving Daulton home from Kruk’s bachelor party at Smokey Joe’s, the popular college bar near Villanova University. Dykstra was charged with DWI, while a broken left eye socket sidelined Dutch for more than two weeks. Later, Daulton missed additional time due to lingering double vision. He finished with an anemic .196 average in 89 games. Phillies fans vented their frustration with Darren towards baby Zach during a father-son game at The Vet. “My wife ran under the stands, and she was crying,” Dutch recalled. “She said, ‘I don’t care if they boo you, but I don’t want them booing our son.’ I thought about that for a minute. ‘What do you mean, you don’t mind if they boo me?’”14

August 13, 1991 proved to be a pivotal date in Darren’s career. Trailing by a run with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh inning at Pittsburgh, Phillies manager Jim Fregosi had Ricky Jordan pinch-hit for Daulton. After the embarrassed catcher angrily confronted his skipper, Fregosi snapped, “You want to stay in the game? You want to be a leader on this team? You know all those long ‘home runs’ you hit that go foul? Well, they don’t count!”15 Dutch arrived at spring training the following year determined to respond to Fregosi’s challenges to become more of an on-field and clubhouse leader, and to improve his run production by hitting to all fields.

In 1992, Daulton made his first All-Star team and became the first Phillies catcher to win a Silver Slugger Award. His 109 RBIs led the NL, and he hit a career-high 27 homers. That offseason, his looks earned him a cameo appearance on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

Daulton signed a four-year, $18.5 million contract to become the majors’ highest-paid catcher in spring 1993. But Philly’s media and fans worried that his success was an aberration and couldn’t understand why the team tied its future to the oft-injured catcher. Team President Bill Giles explained, “Darren is very special to me. With all the injuries and the auto accident, he is a great example of what determination and hard work can do. The new contract means that the best catcher in baseball will be in a Phillies uniform for the rest of his career.”16

In 1993, the Phillies swept the season-opening series in Houston, but hot-tempered third baseman Dave Hollins went hitless in the last game, brooded on the flight home, and shunned Daulton when asked if he was okay. The next day Dutch took Hollins aside and chewed him out, saying, “Let’s get one thing straight – the team comes first, no matter how good or bad you do. There were plenty of times I struck out three or even four times in a game, but it didn’t matter because we won. Don’t ever do that again or I will beat the s— out of you.”17

The brash swagger, blue-collar grit, long hair, and scruffy appearances of the ’93 Phillies resonated with the club’s fanbase. The corner of the clubhouse, where Daulton, Kruk, Dykstra, Hollins, Mitch Williams, and Pete Incaviglia had lockers, was affectionately known as “Macho Row.” Curt Schilling referred to his teammates “as politically incorrect a group of human beings as ever existed in the game.”18 After games, players migrated to the trainer’s room, which was off-limits to reporters. Daulton was their unofficial spokesman. Dan Stephenson, the Phillies’ head of video production, shared that “The whole postgame bull session developed because Dutch had to go back into the trainer’s room to get iced down. Kruk would get a pitcher of beer and join him. Eventually everybody started heading back. That little ritual, joining Dutch in the training room, bonded the team.”19

In ’93, Daulton was the NL’s starting All-Star Game catcher. He produced 24 homers, 105 RBIs, and walked 117 times as Philadelphia won 97 games and the NL East. Facing the 104-win Braves in the NLCS, the Phillies were underdogs in the match-up Schilling dubbed “America’s Team vs. America’s Most Wanted.” However, Philadelphia shocked the baseball world, winning four games to two.20 Daulton homered in Game Five. In the World Series, the Phils pushed the defending champion Blue Jays to the brink of a decisive Game Seven before Joe Carter’s dramatic series-ending, walk-off homer. Daulton had a homer and three RBIs in what remains the highest scoring World Series game in history, Philadelphia’s 15-14 Game Four defeat.

Fregosi platooned at shortstop, second base, and both corner outfield positions that season, but there were few complaints about playing time. “That was all Darren,” recalled Mickey Morandini. “Darren nipped everything in the bud as soon as he saw something that could be an issue.”21 Kruk added “Terry Mulholland pitched a gem of a complete game…Mitch (Williams) came in and he was upset. He yelled at Jimmy Fregosi for not bringing him in, ‘If I’m your closer, you gotta put me in that game.’ Darren took Mitch to the back room and said, ‘Look, that’s not what we’re about and if that ever happens again, I’ll rip your arm off and you’ll never pitch again.’”22

During 1994 spring training, Daulton was in the middle of a divorce (finalized in May 1995), so an anonymous prankster wrote $9.25 million – or half of his contract’s value – above his soon-to-be ex-wife’s head on the Hooters billboard. Daulton persuaded Nicole Garcia, the University of South Florida student he’d started dating that spring, to move to Philadelphia. He paid for her to fly back and forth to Tampa so she could finish her degree.

The strike-shortened ’94 campaign ended even earlier for Daulton, courtesy of a June 28 foul tip that broke his right clavicle – though he finished the game. Daulton was an All-Star in 1995, though he played just 98 games before tearing his right ACL. After outfielder Gary Varsho signed with the Phillies as a free agent earlier that year, he and his wife Kay befriended Darren and Nicole. Gary and Kay named their son, born in 1996, after Dutch. Daulton Varsho became a big leaguer in 2020.

Daulton married Nicole on November 25, 1995, and they bought a mansion with an elevator to accommodate his aching knees. Dutch missed the majority of 1996 rehabbing his knee, appearing in just five games as an outfielder – his days behind the plate were done. Returning to action in 1997, he played mostly right field as well as some first base. On June 16, 1997, Daulton was the Phillies’ first designated hitter in the interleague play era at Fenway Park.

After 18 years in the Phillies organization, Dutch was traded to the Florida Marlins for Billy McMillon on July 21, 1997. The Marlins were a second-place team with postseason aspirations and already had a strong veteran presence in their clubhouse. His new teammates were astounded that he immediately asserted himself as a leader. Cliff Floyd recalled, “Dutch came over and held a team meeting. I think it was the first week he was there, right?” Laughing, Floyd continued: “I can’t say some of the stuff he was saying, but he said, ‘This is a —-ing country club. You all come in looking all relaxed and content and complacent and we ain’t winning nothing like that.’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘This cocky team we have, somebody is going to get up and let Dutch have it.’ Not a peep. He commanded that much respect.”23

Daulton played mostly at first base for Florida, sharing time with Jeff Conine. The Marlins made the postseason as a wild card and beat the Braves in the NLCS. In the World Series, Florida defeated the Cleveland Indians, four games to three. Daulton appeared in all seven contests, batting .389 with a homer and three walks. He retired as a World Series champion.

Over the course of his career, Daulton compiled a 23.0 WAR, played in 1,161 games and had 891 hits in 3,630 at-bats for a .245 batting average. He also scored 511 runs, hit 137 home runs, and had 588 RBIs. His career on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS were .357, .427, and .784, respectively.

Despite having no coaching experience, Daulton interviewed to replace fired Phillies manager Terry Francona in 2000. Larry Bowa was hired and offered a job on his staff, but Daulton joined the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a catching instructor and bullpen coach to stay close to his family. He left the team abruptly at midseason in 2001.

After his retirement from baseball, Daulton was arrested for DUI and had his driver’s license suspended twice. Between 2001 and 2003, he was charged with two DUIs, driving with a suspended license, and was arrested for domestic battery and violating a domestic violence injunction. He served two and a half months in jail, another two and a half months in a rehab facility, and was later arrested for violating his probation. From 2004 to 2005, Daulton was arrested for missing a court hearing and for failing to appear in court after a probation violation.

Daulton hung out with “greenflies” who used him for his fame and money.24 He made $25 million during his playing career but gave $1 million to a “sweaty fake preacher in a cheap toupee” and lost $2 million to shady real estate developers.25 “He was preyed on by people,” Nicole said, “and his judgment was so off.”26 In 2006, rumors of Daulton’s financial problems spread after memorabilia from his playing days appeared on eBay and he sold his World Series ring. Darren and Nicole divorced that year.

Daulton was ridiculed for promoting his beliefs on metaphysics, astral travel, numerology, and parallel dimensions in his 2007 book If They Only Knew. He claimed that he could communicate with the lizards in his backyard and that enlightened people would ascend to a higher plane of existence on December 21, 2012.

Daulton’s musclebound physique and close friendship with Dykstra ignited steroid rumors. Dykstra was named in the 2007 Mitchell Report and publicly admitted to using steroids on multiple occasions. Since Daulton had never hit more than 12 homers in a season before 1992, it was tempting to attribute his drastically improved power numbers to Dykstra’s “special vitamins.”27 Trainer Jeff Cooper claimed Dykstra was not the only member of the ‘93 Phillies who used steroids. When Cooper confronted an unnamed Phillie whose steroid use was “obvious,” he was told to “mind his own business and the matter went no further.”28 During a 2009 radio interview, Daulton admitted to drug use without going into details, saying, “There’s probably no one in any sport that has taken more drugs than I have.”29

Dickie Noles, a former Phillies pitcher who assists ballplayers with substance abuse issues, got Daulton into a rehab program and on a path to redemption. From 2010 to 2013, Darren hosted the afternoon radio program “Talkin’ Baseball with Dutch” on WPEN FM; became a pitchman for Yuengling Beer; and began a relationship with former professional golfer Amanda Dick.

On June 27, 2013, Daulton was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. He and Amanda married on December 14. During his remission, they co-founded the Darren Daulton Foundation to provide financial assistance to people with malignant brain tumors. Daulton announced that he was cancer-free in 2015, but the disease returned with a vengeance. Just 55, he died on August 6, 2017, in his Palm Harbor, Florida condominium.

The rate of brain cancer among former Phillies who played at Veterans Stadium is nearly three times that of the U.S. adult male population. Six former Phillies have died from glioblastoma: Ken Brett, Tug McGraw, Johnny Oates, Vukovich, Daulton, and David West. After West’s 2022 death, laboratories hired by the Philadelphia Inquirer tested samples of The Vet’s AstroTurf from the 1980s and identified 16 “forever chemicals.”30 On the hottest days of the summer, the turf’s surface reached up to 165 degrees Fahrenheit,, triggering the release of toxic vapors.

A celebration of life ceremony was held in Daulton’s honor at the Chapel by the Sea in Clearwater Beach. John Kruk told the estimated 200 friends and family in attendance, “Never in my life have I been hugged and kissed by a man more than Darren did. That’s the thing I’m going to miss about him – love. He showed us love. And in showing us love, we all became better people. Because of him.”31

Daulton was buried at Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Arkansas City, Kansas, survived by Amanda and his four children: Zachary, Summer, Savannah, and Darren, Jr. As of 2026, the Darren Daulton Foundation has provided grants totaling over $500,000 to more than 200 brain cancer patients.

Acknowledgments

This biography was reviewed by Malcolm Allen, Alan Cohen, and Rory Costello and fact-checked by Tony Oliver.

Photo credit: Darren Daulton, Trading Card Database.

Sources 

In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author consulted baseball-almanac.com, baseball-reference.com, fangraphs.com, retrosheet.org, and Daulton’s National Baseball Hall of Fame Library player file.

The author participated with other Phillies fans on a pre-game Zoom call/webinar with John Kruk on May 21, 2021. He also conducted phone interviews with David Daulton Sr. and Carol Daulton on March 12, 2021; Lenny Dykstra on March 12, 2021; Philadelphia sportswriter Paul Hagen on March 15, 2021; and Mike Grace on March 20, 2021. The author also interviewed Tommy Greene in person on January 3, 2026.

Notes

1 Bob Brookover, “Inside the Phillies: Darren Daulton, Faults and All, Always a Stand-Up Guy,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 2013. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/columnists/20130630_Darren_Daulton__faults_and_all__always_a_stand-up_guy.html#loaded.

2 Catchers Salvador Pérez (2021) and Cal Raleigh (2025) have since led the American League in RBIs.

3 Todd Zolecki, “Phillies’ Top 5 Catchers: Zolecki’s Take,” MLB.com, February 9, 2026. https://www.mlb.com/news/phillies-catchers-all-time-best.

4 Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York, New York: Free Press, 2001): 391.

5 Tom Burgoyne and Robert Gordon, More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps: The Story of the 1993 Phillies (and the Phillie Phanatic Too) (Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2006): 97.

6 Darren Daulton’s 1995 Topps Embossed baseball card #61.

7 William C. Kashatus, Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2017): 7.

8 Darren Daulton’ s questionnaire for William J. Weiss, June 30, 1980.

9 Bob Gordon, Legends of the Philadelphia Phillies (Champaign, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2005): 47.

10 Paul Hagen, “Daulton Remembered for What He Shared – Love,” MLB.com, August 21, 2017. https://www.mlb.com/news/phillies-teammates-mourn-darren-daulton-c249846408.

11 Leigh Montville, “Leading Man: Darren Daulton, Who Has Both the Looks and a Strike-It-Rich Story Made for Hollywood, Stars for the Offbeat Phillies,” Sports Illustrated, October 11, 1993.

12 Burgoyne and Gordon, More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps: The Story of the 1993 Phillies (and the Phillie Phanatic Too), 96.

13 Brookover, “Inside the Phillies: Darren Daulton, Faults and All, Always a Stand-Up Guy.”

14 Montville, “Leading Man: Darren Daulton, Who Has Both the Looks and a Strike-It-Rich Story Made for Hollywood, Stars for the Offbeat Phillies”.

15 Kashatus, Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code: 92-93.

16 Kashatus, Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code: 114.

17 Kashatus, Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code: 154.

18 Stephen Gross, “Curt Schilling, Phillies remember 1993 NL Champions,” Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), June 10, 2018. https://www.mcall.com/2018/06/10/curt-schilling-phillies-remember-1993-nl-champions/.

19 Burgoyne and Gordon, More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps: The Story of the 1993 Phillies (and the Phillie Phanatic Too): 106.

20 Gross, “Curt Schilling, Phillies remember 1993 NL Champions.”

21 Scott Lauber, “Book Excerpt: How the 1993 Phillies Lived Hard, Played Hard, and Bonded in Unforgettable Season,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 19, 2020. https://www.inquirer.com/sports/phillies-big-50-book-excerpt-20200419.html.

22 Craig Calcaterra, “Darren Daulton Once Threatened to Rip Off Mitch Williams’s Arm. God Bless Him,” NBCSports.com, April 19, 2017. https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/darren-daulton-once-threatened-to-rip-off-mitch-williamss-arm.

23 Bob Brookover, “Phillies President Dave Dombrowski Considers the Late Darren Daulton One of His All-Time Great Deadline Deals,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2021. https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-marlins-darren-daulton-trade-dave-dombrowski-20210612.html.

24 David Gambacorta and Barbara Laker, “From Phillies Icon to ‘Time Traveler’: Darren Daulton’s Family Believes His Struggles and Cancer Were Linked to The Vet’s Turf,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 2023. https://www.inquirer.com/news/phillies-daulton-cancer-artificial-turf-pfas-veterans-stadium-20230410.html.

25 Gambacorta and Barbara Laker, “From Phillies Icon to ‘Time Traveler’: Darren Daulton’s Family Believes His Struggles and Cancer Were Linked to The Vet’s Turf.”

26 Gambacorta and Laker, “From Phillies Icon to ‘Time Traveler’: Darren Daulton’s Family Believes His Struggles and Cancer Were Linked to The Vet’s Turf.”

27 Dennis Deitch, “Phils Saw Signs of Steroids in Former Players,” Pottstown (Pennsylvania) Mercury, December 15, 2007. https://www.pottsmerc.com/2007/12/15/phils-saw-signs-of-steroids-in-former-players/.

28 Kashatus, Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code, 261.

29 Dashiell Bennett, “Darren Daulton Wants To Make It Clear That He Has Done A Lot Drugs,” Deadspin.com, June 30, 2009. https://deadspin.com/darren-daulton-wants-to-makes-it-clear-that-he-has-done-5304826/.

30 David Gambacorta and Barbara Laker, “Field of Dread: Six former Phillies Died from the Same Brain Cancer. We Tested The Vet’s Turf and Found Dangerous Chemicals,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 2023. https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/astroturf-vet-artificial-turf-pfas-forever-chemicals-glioblastoma-cancer-phillies-1980-20230307.html.

31 Hagen, “Daulton Remembered for What He Shared – Love.”