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I wonder how much the voters were aware of the cocaine issue when considering whether to vote for him. It happened 35 years ago. Whereas Schilling throws stuff in your face just about every day on Twitter and his Breitbart show, and seems to be proud of offending people. He's part of the problem of declining civility and attacking everyone you disagree with.
Two positive narrative items in Raines' favor is his recovery from lupus to play a few more seasons in the 2000s, and him taking the field with his son with the Orioles in '01. It probably helped that a lot of people consider him the greatest Expo-sure there was Carter and Dawson, and others, but I'd say Raines is the best player you remember as an Expo first.