Children squeal in delight at the baby rave at the Roxy as Kuma the monkey, Lenny Pearce’s sidekick, hypes up the crowd. “I can handle kids’ music now,” said Sandra, 38.

That's more like it. That's the Lenny Dykstra baseball fans knew and loved — or loathed. The diving, dirt-stained player as rough as his nickname, "Nails." Pretty much the last guy you'd expect to be ...

However, at another auto dealer, Dykstra, Hymers and Christopher Gavanis, 30, a friend of Dykstra's, were able to drive off with three cars by providing fraudulent information to the dealer.