Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.
Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
