06/22: Melky
Posted by: Patrick
Steve points to an interesting article on Melky at Star-Tribune.com:
Melky Cabrera began playing baseball at age 3, with a stick and a rock and a plea to anyone who visited the family's humble roadside home on Carretera Sanchez, in the village of Haina, not far from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
"Pitch it! Pitch it," he would say, holding out a rock. ...
10:15 a.m.: Cabrera wakes up in his New Jersey apartment...
The apartment is in the same complex as Robinson Cano's: his fellow Dominican and closest friend on the team. The distance from left field to second base is about as far as Cabrera gets from Cano on a typical day. They hang out together, drive to the park together, go eat Dominican food together.
"He's like a brother to me," Melky says. "My mother and (Cano) are my inspiration." ...
... Everyone seems to love Melky's name. Whoever heard of a Melky? "I wanted to name him Dario, after his godfather," his mother says. Her daughter, Ladi, came up with Melky on the way home from the hospital.
"Pitch it! Pitch it," he would say, holding out a rock. ...
10:15 a.m.: Cabrera wakes up in his New Jersey apartment...
The apartment is in the same complex as Robinson Cano's: his fellow Dominican and closest friend on the team. The distance from left field to second base is about as far as Cabrera gets from Cano on a typical day. They hang out together, drive to the park together, go eat Dominican food together.
"He's like a brother to me," Melky says. "My mother and (Cano) are my inspiration." ...
... Everyone seems to love Melky's name. Whoever heard of a Melky? "I wanted to name him Dario, after his godfather," his mother says. Her daughter, Ladi, came up with Melky on the way home from the hospital.
