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Seeing my dad play baseball made my love for the game grow.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how…

— Rafael Palmeiro

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

— Matthew Stafford

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of…

— Mark Teixeira

Baseball I played literally from the time I can remember. My dad had played, my older brother played, so I always wanted to be…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I remember my dad was taking me to the field. It was fun. It was great. It was a thing that I love and…

— Fernando Tatis Jr

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.

— Christian Yelich

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

— Nick Foles

My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas…

— Stan Van Gundy

My dad was a founder of our Little League chapter in my hometown so you talked baseball in our family for breakfast, lunch and…

— Alex Cora

My whole life, baseball was my first love. I was gonna go play college, but during my senior year I tore my ACL, and…

— Morgan Wallen

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I…

— Mordecai Brown