Why the hate for Dave Kingman? He was never a locker room "cancer"!!!! He hated reporters, that's true but he never was any problem with his teammates. You might have the mistaken notion that he was a cancer because reporters didn't like him but not his teammates. He was a guy that hunted and fished, a country boy that got along with the other country boys. Kingman was one of my favorite players of the era, a one-dimensional power hitter that hit moon shots without the help of steroids. If the steroid era hadn't come along he would be remembered as one of the premier power hitters of his era.