Letter to My Younger Self
Some of your greatest athletic feats will occur while you’re high, but not because you’re high. Understand that distinction.
Some of your greatest athletic feats will occur while you’re high, but not because you’re high. Understand that distinction.
On most summer nights, Dodger Stadium hosts Major League baseball. But on this night, it played host to a remarkable display of ping-pong.
Yeah, we’ll talk in October. That’s how we wanna end it. Hopefully that can be the last photo on the Instagram account. The ring.
His career needs to be counted as one of the best of this or any other generation.
When I heard I was being dealt to Atlanta, the first thing that popped into my head was an image of my 10-year-old self decked out in Braves gear.
You know Big Papi. But when I came to this country, I was a simple guy who was trying to have fun and make his dream come true.
If more guys spoke their minds, baseball would probably be an even more high-profile sport. The game needs personalities.
The thing about playing catcher is that you’re just trying to get your pitcher a win. Playing catcher is all about making the guy up on the mound look good.
I miss being the artist. I had the canvas and I had the pitcher be the painter, and he had to paint the game.
This is my home away from home. This is my family.
Just about every knuckleballer turned to the pitch out of desperation. To hold on. To save our careers. I mean, you’re not getting drafted as a knuckleballer.
As a college student, I would be the grillmaster for all of my teammates and roommates. So I kind of started mixing different things.
With Father’s Day coming up, Boston Red Sox first baseman Hanley Ramirez sat down with one of the biggest dads around — his friend David Ortiz.
Cal was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007, and though his days on the field are over, he still spends plenty of time at the ballpark.
The Streak always represented to me a sense of responsibility. I thought it was important to come out there and be there for your teammates — to try to play and
It’s kind of indescribable to see a lifelong goal floating towards you in the air. As soon as the ball popped into my glove, I was a world champion.
Since Johnny Bench retired in 1983 the 10-time Gold Glove winner has found another place (besides behind the plate) where he excels: behind the grill.
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