Ronald Acuña Jr: “Want to know something that I have never told to anyone? Not a soul. Not even my parents know. I have never spoken about this, but…. Ever since I was a child, from a very young age, I would ask God to make me famous. That is what I would actually pray for. And it all revolved around baseball. I lived for baseball. Me and my friends, we played the game everywhere — down at the beach, on the huge lot behind the town hospital, out on the street, wherever. It was all we wanted to do. On weekdays, I would get up and go to school at seven in the morning. Then my friends and me, when we finished classes in the afternoon, we would immediately head to the baseball field. La Sabana has only one field. It’s not very big. It has just a small section of stands. The field is in front of the cemetery. The graves are right beyond centerfield. Then beyond that there are some trees and the ocean. There are houses on one side, and a mountain and jungle on the other side, and in the middle is a baseball field. It wasn’t anything special, but … it was ours. That was our Yankee Stadium. And since our school was right next door to the field, it was easy to just leave school, jump over the wall, and go play baseball. We would be there for two or three hours. Then we’d go to the basketball court and play ball for a while. After that, we’d go back to baseball again, sometimes until 10 at night. We did this every day. We’d play until our moms came out into the street or to the field and yelled at us.”
@PlayersTribune @Braves @MLB He seems like a good guy. I’m glad he’s a brave