“Victorino earns MVP for charitable deeds.” “Phillies’ Shane Victorino wins Lou Gehrig Award for character.” The headlines in his Wikipedia bibliography speak of his generosity: I was able to get in that position with my first contract, so I said, ‘Let’s get it going.’ ” I said if I ever get in position where I have financial stability, I want to give back. Get up in the morning, go clean the church, PTA, coaching soccer, always volunteering. I didn’t come from a big financial family. “I was taught that way,” said Victorino, who was wearing a red foundation T-shirt (with no invectives or restrictions on language), blue jeans and flip-flops, because it was nearly 70 degrees, in late November, and also because he grew up near sugarcane fields. (I did find a John Rocker website where you could buy his book and a T-shirt that said “Speak English” and a letter why we should all speak English, dated Sept. For instance, it would surprise me if John Rocker had a foundation. But if her husband couldn’t hit a curveball, this probably doesn’t happen, and if Mike and Jocelyn Victorino hadn’t instilled their youngest son with virtues and whatnot, it probably wouldn’t have happened, either.Ī lot of guys can hit a curveball, and pitch one, but not all of them are so generous. It’s called Shane Victorino’s Knock It Out of the Park Toy Drive, even if – and I’m just guessing here – Melissa does much of the work. Bob Miller and one of the big shots from International Game Technology (Staci Columbo Alonso, and good thing she’s not a ballplayer with a name like that, because she probably would hurt her wrist signing autographs) kicked off a Christmas toy drive at the IGT cafeteria. On Monday, Victorino and his wife, Melissa former Nevada Gov. Such as refurbishing a run-down Boys Club in an old part of North Philly they call Nicetown. But he set up a foundation and started doing stuff for a lot of people – but mostly for kids. Usually there was a night game against the Mets, or a day game against the Cubs at Wrigley, and it didn’t leave time for sweeping floors at churches. Like sweep floors at churches and other stuff.Īnd then the Phillies took him in the Rule 5 draft – whatever that is – and he broke into the Philadelphia lineup, in 2005. So Shane Victorino played all those sports – baseball, football, soccer, track – and he learned to hit a curveball, and he made a vow: that if he ever learned to hit a curveball really well, he’d do stuff for people. Anthony High in Hawaii – there always was time to do a good deed, such as sweeping the floors at the Catholic church. And that regardless of how many sports he played – and Shane played about 38 sports at St. So Shane Victorino’s parents, Mike and Jocelyn, taught him to work hard. He was born in paradise, in a place called Wailuku, on Maui, where pineapples and macadamia nuts grow on trees.īut the ones in the produce section cost money.
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