Daily News | From Phillies icon to ‘lizard king’: Darren Daulton’s family believes his struggles and cancer were linked to the Vet’s turf
It was the late 1990s, and Daulton was in Harbor Bluffs, Fla., where he and his then-wife, Nicole, shared a picturesque, three-story home overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. Daulton always felt drawn to the water, his Hollywood features bronzing in the sun.
On one occasion, Daulton told her that he’d won a fight with God, and could turn invisible, even travel through time.During another conversation, he explained that he was a lizard king, capable of communicating with lizards in their backyard. “He told me they watch everything I do, and they tell him everything I do. … So he knows when I’m safe or when I’m not safe,” she told The Inquirer during a recent interview.
Timothy Rebbeck, an epidemiologist who researches the causes of cancer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has said that experts will never have a good measure of the toxins that Phillies players were exposed to.“The materials used in synthetic turf have been thoroughly reviewed by both federal and state government agencies and are considered to be nonhazardous,” Melanie Taylor, the president and CEO of the Synthetic Turf Council, has written in an email.
In an interview, Bilott said the chemical companies that manufacture PFAS have waged misinformation campaigns to sow doubt about how dangerous their chemicals are. But his research into the companies’ own records found that they have known for decades that PFAS cause cancers and other serious human health problems, and withheld the information from government agencies.
Among Daulton’s former teammates – and families of other baseball players and umpires who have died of brain cancer – there is deepening concern about the artificial grass they once played on, and whether there might be a connection between the devastating illnesses. Three years later, the Phillies invited Daulton to spring training, where the catcher met pitcher Larry Christenson, who was entering his final season.
“You knew he had the talent. You knew how hard he worked. And he kept getting hurt,” said Hayes, now 64. “I couldn’t wait until he was going to be healthy.” Dykstra was left with three broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a punctured lung. Daulton suffered a broken left eye socket, a scratched cornea, and a bruised heart.
Nearly everyone in the bar seemed to be in their early 20s. A band thundered in the background. Nicole looked across the room, and spotted “all these old guys” at a table: Daulton, Dykstra, Hollins and a few others. Daulton stepped into his black Mercedes 600 SL convertible and drove them to a Wawa — and was mobbed again.
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