{"id":238466,"date":"2021-04-29T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-stars-agent-are-teaching-teens-that-character-matters\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:04:54","slug":"yankees-stars-agent-are-teaching-teens-that-character-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-stars-agent-are-teaching-teens-that-character-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees stars, agent are teaching teens that ‘character matters’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees stars, agent are teaching teens that ‘character matters’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Mark Leinweaver, captain of his Stonehill College baseball team, never made the pros. His glove did, though.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to 1999 in Norwich, Conn., where the Norwich Navigators, the Yankees\u2019 Double-A affiliate, were playing a home game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Manager) Lee Mazzilli made a move that pulled Nick Johnson out of the game,\u201d recalled Leinweaver, who worked as both a Navigators radiocaster and media<\/a>-relations employee at the time. \u201cThey were short a first baseman. They didn\u2019t have someone to play first base. So they brought in Jeremy Morris, an outfielder, and he played first base wearing his outfielder\u2019s glove, because he threw righty and Nick threw lefty. My radio partner recognized that, and on the air, I said, \u2018I have a first baseman\u2019s glove in my house.\u2019 I lived about a half-mile from the ballpark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clubhouse manager heard me say that, and he told Mazzilli, \u2018The radio guy said he has a glove at his house!\u2019 It was like the third inning. They got a police escort and a stadium ops guy went to my house and got the glove. Morris wore it at first base for the rest of that game.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Yorktown Heights native, Leinweaver has plenty more such stories, from playing basketball one-on-one against 2002 Navs manager Luis Sojo (who returned to active play with the Yankees the next season!) to driving Sojo\u2019s predecessor Stump Merrill\u2019s vintage Mercedes \u2013 with Merrill in the passenger seat \u2013 from New Haven to Portland one very late night post-game (Stump, a native Mainer, was a fan of neither bathroom breaks nor turning on the heat).<\/p>\n