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Next up is former major league lefty (and noted Rastafarian-Buddhist-communist-Roman Catholic) Bill Lee.

Bill “Spaceman” Lee

Some of your greatest athletic feats will occur while you’re high, but not because you’re high. Understand that distinction.

Bill “Spaceman” Lee

On most summer nights, Dodger Stadium hosts Major League baseball. But on this night, it played host to a remarkable display of ping-pong.

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Yeah, we’ll talk in October. That’s how we wanna end it. Hopefully that can be the last photo on the Instagram account. The ring.

Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and David Ross

His career needs to be counted as one of the best of this or any other generation.

Derek Jeter

When I heard I was being dealt to Atlanta, the first thing that popped into my head was an image of my 10-year-old self decked out in Braves gear.

Matt Kemp

You know Big Papi. But when I came to this country, I was a simple guy who was trying to have fun and make his dream come true.

David Ortiz

If more guys spoke their minds, baseball would probably be an even more high-profile sport. The game needs personalities.

Gary Sheffield

The thing about playing catcher is that you’re just trying to get your pitcher a win. Playing catcher is all about making the guy up on the mound look good.

Johnny Bench

Just about every knuckleballer turned to the pitch out of desperation. To hold on. To save our careers. I mean, you’re not getting drafted as a knuckleballer.

Steven Wright

As a college student, I would be the grillmaster for all of my teammates and roommates. So I kind of started mixing different things.

Matt Harvey

With Father’s Day coming up, Boston Red Sox first baseman Hanley Ramirez sat down with one of the biggest dads around — his friend David Ortiz.

David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez

Cal was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007, and though his days on the field are over, he still spends plenty of time at the ballpark.

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The Streak always represented to me a sense of responsibility. I thought it was important to come out there and be there for your teammates — to try to play and

Cal Ripken Jr.

It’s kind of indescribable to see a lifelong goal floating towards you in the air. As soon as the ball popped into my glove, I was a world champion.

Cal Ripken Jr.

Since Johnny Bench retired in 1983 the 10-time Gold Glove winner has found another place (besides behind the plate) where he excels: behind the grill.

Welcome to Moments of Greatness, a series where athletes look back on moments in their lives when they saw true greatness, on or off the field.

Justin Tuck

Welcome to Best of America, a fill-in-the-blank style sitdown where athletes name the best of the best that they've experienced across America in their travels

Eric Hosmer

For 22 years in the majors, Ken Griffey Jr. spent his summers the same way: traveling from city to city, baseball stadium to baseball stadium. But one experienc

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Baseball is a statistics-obsessed sport, so it makes sense that hitting is easier to understand than fielding. There’s no real stat in baseball for robbing peop

Ken Griffey Jr.