Word: wheeler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Look,” Wheeler told himself last year, “only two more years of the game you love. Play it like you love it, and not like it’s your...
...soon as he stopped looking at each at-bat as a “life-or-death situation,” Wheeler recovered that confidence he’d lost somewhere between Minnetonka and Cambridge...
Already this season, Wheeler has maintained a healthy .320 batting average in 11 games and seven starts, splitting time as a first baseman, a designated hitter, and a pinch hitter...
Ultimately, though, “I just couldn’t quit”—and for reasons that would make Hollywood screenwriters drool. Wheeler loves the game. He loves his teammates. He loves what he learned from his father, Bill, a Tennessean catcher who earned a scholarship to Vanderbilt, only to blow out his knee before backstopping a single pitch for the Commodores...
Which makes it all the more interesting that today, of all times—now that it is all coming together for the 22-year-old—Wheeler is ready to give the game...