05-29-2007, 07:39 PM
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| Tony Gwynn Jr. and Prince Fielder
Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports penned a nice article about the relationship between Tony Gwynn Jr. and Prince Fielder. Of course both are sons of former MLBers and have become two of the top young players on the Milwaukee Brewers (who despite their recent slide are still atop the NL Central).
The intro is what I found most interesting... Quote:
On a summer afternoon four years ago, Tony Gwynn Jr. was in the first professional clubhouse he'd ever been paid to be in.
This was A-ball in Beloit, Wis. This is where it would start.
He walked into the office and introduced himself to Don Money, the manager. A big kid, about Gwynn's age and vaguely familiar, was in a nearby chair. When the player-manager pleasantries were done, the big kid said, "Hey, you wanna room with me?"
"Sure," Gwynn said.
"Cool," the big kid said.
That was that. Gwynn, Tony's son, was going to live with Prince Fielder, Cecil's son, on spec.
"I mean, he didn't know my personality, he didn't know how clean I was," Gwynn said, still astounded.
Fielder shrugged.
"I knew how it was when I first got drafted," he said. "And I wanted to see if we had the same things growing up. I thought it'd be a good, kind of cool thing."
Gwynn said his see-you-laters.
"I didn't know who he was," he said. "Someone said, 'That's Cecil's son.' From that point on, I knew it was going to be really good. We were already going to have a lot in common."
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