Baseball
Eight MLB teams turned him down – including the one that eventually signed him. Here's how it happened.
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Football
"Cancer can be part of your story without defining who you are or who you want to be."
Stories
“Whatever you have a passion for in life, you have the right to shoot for it even if people don’t believe in you.”
Baseball
“Things can really change overnight no matter what you are going through."
Basketball
“When the accident happened, I was thinking like: ‘What am I going to do now?’”
Baseball
Cut three times in high school, this former junior college walk-on ignored the doubters and “bugged” his way into pro baseball.
Basketball
“People always told me what I couldn’t do...I wanted to prove the naysayers wrong every day.”
Stories
“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere.”
Football
"You're doing some help with some film breakdowns, and then you're doing some McDonald's runs at 2 AM...you’ve gotta earn your stripes."
Stories
They laughed at him in high school. Now he's gearing up for football's biggest stage.