Mets legend Keith Hernandez isn’t ashamed he cried

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Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets during a Major League Baseball game, 1983-1989.Those looking for tales of fast women, drugs and debauchery inside the 1986 Mets’ clubhouse won’t find it in “I’m Keith Hernandez.”

Yes, the title is plucked from the iconic “Seinfeld” scene in which the cocksure former big leaguer, playing himself, attempts to work up the gumption to kiss Elaine Benes. In an inner monologue, he reminds himself that he’s the Keith Hernandez: the five-time All-Star who won two World Series titles and 11 Gold Glove awards and was the 1979 co-MVP of the National League.

However, in his upcoming memoir (Little, Brown and Company), we meet a very different version of…