(CNN) — President Donald Trump has granted clemency to former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry for a 1995 tax evasion charge.

Trump, a White House official said, “has approved a pardon for Darryl Strawberry, three-time World Series champion and eight-time MLB All-Star.”

“Mr. Strawberry served time and paid back taxes after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion,” the official added, highlighting his subsequent sobriety, his Christian faith, and his efforts to start a recovery center in Florida.

Strawberry, who played for the New York Yankees, the New York Mets, and other teams during his MLB career, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1995, which The New York Times reported at the time avoided a trial on three tax-related counts that could have landed him in prison fo

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