Modern Yankees Heroes Jorge Posada held on with bat and work ethic

Pick up your duplicate of the memorial Modern Yankees Heroes Magazine honoring Jorge Posada Sunday - Only in the New York Daily News. TAMPA — Switch-hitting catcher Jorge Posada wasnt innate a Yankee. He wasnt even innate ambidextrous. Posada didnt bat lefty until about thirty years ago, on a dry Little League margin in Puerto Rico. It was there that his father, a vital joining director afterwards and now, sensitive 9-year-old Jorge that from that day brazen the child would bat lefthanded any time he faced a righthanded pitcher. Little Jorge wasnt happy, his father recalls."He cried and he cried and he cried, since in the diversion he would set upon out and set upon out and set upon out," says Jorge Posada Sr. from his home in San Juan. He says his son struck out seventeen times in a row, and afterwards strike a home run with the 18th maladroit at-bat. "He looked at me and said, "oh father, appreciate you. Thank you, father." "The younger Posada, right away 38 and a father of dual himself, laughs when he remembers those strikeouts — or at slightest the initial 4 of them. Sitting at his locker after a spring-training examination progressing this month, the five-time All-Star remembered that Little League diversion in Puerto Rico in that he struggled to pitch lefthanded."It was ugly," Posada says. "I didnt even have contact. It was bad. But I stranded with it, and there was a small swell patently after that. Thank God he did that. I think that helped me a lot at this level."It wasnt the last time Posada would utterly re-program his diversion on the approach to pinstripe stardom. In 1993, 3 years after the Yankees drafted him as an infielder out of Calhoun Community College in Alabama, the classification asked him to have the switch from second bottom to catcher. Posada resisted the reassignment. Strenuously. He had a small bit of experience at the back of the image (his father had speedy him to fool around each position), but Posada didnt feel up to catching full time."Here and there you catch, but when the an bland thing the different," Posada says. "It was nauseous at the beginning. Really, unequivocally ugly."And nonetheless here he is, one of the most appropriate catchers in the vital leagues and a personality of the reigning universe champions. Posada nods in agreement with the idea that those early, forced overhauls of his diversion gave him the mental toughness compulsory to last some-more than a decade at the back of the image as the Yankees" starting catcher. Those changes in his diversion (from righty to switch-hitter, from infield to catcher) might have kept him humble, done him sense more, and done him quarrel for his place in ball even after he arrived in the Bronx. Previous Page 123456
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