“Darryl Strawberry was jailed Tuesday, on his 40th birthday, for breaking a rule at the drug treatment center where he had been serving an 18-month sentence,” MSNBC reports.

Florida Department of Corrections officials did not provide details of the violation. The eight-time major league All-Star did not leave the program or test positive for drugs, said Joe Papy, supervisor of probation services in Tampa.

Strawberry was being held in the Marion County Jail and was kicked out of the drug treatment program at Phoenix House, a residential facility about 80 miles north of Tampa.

Strawberry was sentenced in May to two years of house arrest at the center. That followed a four-day, cross-state drug binge.

Reached for comment, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner seemed unfazed. “I once saw Darryl try to snort up the entire third base line during pre-game warm-ups at County Stadium in Milwaukee. He’d have done it, too, had the chalk not caked up in his sinus cavities and caused him to pass out. Man, was he ever horny when he woke up…”

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