Dave Valle on Playing for Survival, 2003 HR Derby & Life of a Catcher
The Bret Boone Podcast
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The Importance of Appreciation in Major League Baseball
"I was like a backup NFL quarterback. I played like every third Sunday," he said. "It took me not being an everyday player to really be able to sit back and go, how blessed was I to play this game for the last 20 years of my life professionally?" He says his son Phillip would eat popsicles in the Texas Rangers' bullpen while playing against the Seattle Mariners.
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