Baseball’s Working Poor
15 March 2010
An early contender for my favorite clip of the year. During my book research, I spent nearly two hours interviewing Tampa Bay Rays outfield prospect Fernando Perez. In retrospect, should have been two months.
Perez is a Columbia grad, a published poet and an occasional contributor to the New York Times – as well as the protagonist in this clip, and a “struggling” member of Major League Baseball’s Working Poor class.
The whole thing fills me with ironic joy. (Major h/t to the great folks at DRaysBay.com):
I was not aware that Carl Crawford showers in Evian, or that Denard Span works as an unpaid intern for the WNBA. Chilling.
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Ha, this awesome. No more WNBA for Span after signing that contract this week!