Baseball is a game of failure and the resiliency to succeed. Some players succeed at a young age and their failure is limited. Resiliency is a tough lesson to learn on the Major League level.
Last season, when New York Yankees' GM Brian Cashman traded with the St. Louis Cardinals for an injured Harrison Bader, some fans were up-in-arms. A quality left-handed starting pitcher for a guy on the injured list?
Buffalo Bills' safety Damar Hamlin knows the herculean effort and equipment that it took to save his life on the football field on that fateful night in December. Now Hamlin and his foundation are making sure that youth sports programs in several cities have the tools that they need to help save a life.
82 years ago, a debilitating disease took down one of the greatest Major League Baseball players of all-time at the young age of 38. Today, the baseball media world watches one of their own suffer at 29-years old with the same disease ALS, still with few answers.