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Baseball Player CC Sabathia — Role Model
If you’ve been with me for awhile you may know that in 2018 I became a New York Yankees baseball fan. It’s a long story why I chose this team when I live in and am from California. I did publish the “Baseball Short Story Anthology” almost a year ago as I fully believe in monetizing our interests. This is about one baseball player whom I greatly admire.
On Tuesday, April 30th one of the Yankees, pitcher CC Sabathia became only the 17th pitcher of all time to throw three thousand strikeouts. He is the third left-hander to achieve this goal. Sabathia spends time helping inner city kids to read and that is how I first heard of him long ago while I was a classroom teacher.
What can we learn from CC Sabathia?
This man has had major health issues and personal problems from the beginning of his baseball career in 1998 in the minor leagues. CC made it to the majors in 2001. One thing after another has made them count him out almost every year since due to some of these problems and issues. But he is no ordinary baseball player; he does whatever it takes to get back up and play once again.
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