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An athlete at Narbonne High School in
Harbor City, Craig was interested in many sports but focused on one:
baseball.
In 1977 he was scouted by the Seattle
Mariners and spent a couple of years in the minor league.
In 1979 he started playing in the big
leagues. Despite a shoulder injury in 1980 he participated in 86 games for the Mariners before they
traded him to the Cleveland Indians, for whom he was in another 49
games.
In 1986, after 10 games with the
Chicago White Sox, Craig's professional baseball career was over.
In the 2000's Craig was arrested
several times. He did a three week stint in a Florida jail for
trespassing.
In 2004 he was found incompetent to
stand trial for assaulting a homeless man in Texas and visited a
psychiatric hospital.
In 2013 he was a homeless man in Los
Angeles. On August 17th he was settling down on the 600 block of
Wilshire Blvd, near Hope St, when he was approached by a group oftransients. They told him to move to a different location. As he did,
he tried to kick a dog belonging to one of the other men. He missed
but the dog's owner attacked him. According to police, two other men
joined the fight and one of them stabbed Craig. He was already dead
when paramedics arrived.
Two men have been charged with the murder.
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