Bloops: MLB Players Living at Home
Posted by Raphy on July 8, 2010
Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal presents an interesting article about major league players who still live with their parents.
You can read it here
Posted by Raphy on July 8, 2010
Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal presents an interesting article about major league players who still live with their parents.
You can read it here
July 8th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Great story. Good for them. It can make plenty of sense to choose that kind of stability in a very transient business...and it's not like their free-loading; the league minimum is a darn good salary by most standards.
July 8th, 2010 at 11:06 am
It's good to read a story that extolls the virtue of home and family, as opposed to all of the negative "news" that seems to ooze into the public forum. It is especially good to read of MLB players setting this type of example. Take that, Jim Bouton!
July 8th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
That is one of the weirdest stories I've read. Not because of the story itself, but the way it was written. The reporter kept referring to them as Mr. Ross and Mr. Walker and collectively as Messrs (an abbreviation I've never seen before). It reads like a style of English I'm not used to. Also the photo of Tyson Ross at the bottom that looks like a police artist sketch is a little creepy.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I remember reading that when Richie Ashburn first made it to the major leagues with the Phillies in the late 1940s, his mother moved to Philadelphia from Nebraska to provide home cooking for him. I think a couple of his teammates also moved into the Ashburn home to take advantage of it.