Moss said he hadn't seen Howe in a long time, but had last talked to him just before Christmas. "He told me his daughter was going to get married," Moss said.
Moss, who generally felt very highly of all of his clients, said Howe was a good person despite his problems.
"He got vilified in the press and got this reputation for being a bad guy," Moss said, "but talk to any player on the team he played for and they'll tell you he was a wonderful guy. He was a sick guy and misdiagnosed." Mossadded, "One of the proudest moments in my professional life was being able to get him back into baseball, seeing what his disease was and having him treated."
The grievance victory had to be a highlight of Moss' career. Any time a lawyer can use something like attention deficit disorder to extricate a player from his seventh baseball suspension, he has to feel good. Howe, however, needed more than a good lawyer.
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