Former MLB pitcher Howe killed in wreck

By Editor | April 30, 2006 |

Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died Friday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif. He was 48.

Howe was killed at 5:55 a.m. PDT about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. He had been in Arizona on business and was driving back to the family home in Valencia, Calif., business partner Judy Welp said. Toxicology tests had not yet been performed.

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