David Wright’s Career Is Over Unless He Becomes Fearless at the Plate

Posted: 19th April 2010 by Joseph DelGrippo in MLB
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The event occurred after my college career was over and I was several seasons into one of the various semi-pro leagues I played in during the summer. Make no mistake about the quality of "summer ball," as these were some of the most competitive seasons we ever played. A regular season was usually a 40-game schedule played over 60 days, then playoffs. We were taking infield practice during a team workout and while playing second base, I moved to the left to field a ball hit into the 3.5 hole, when the ball hit something (the skin fields were never great), and came up and hit me square in the nose. You can tell by my picture on my home page here a Bleacher Report , that it was not the only time I was hit in the nose by a baseball. But this occasion, which produced a stream of ...

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