Alex Cora learned the hard way that just because you made it to the majors doesn’t mean you’ll automatically become your mom’s favorite baseball player.
The Red Sox manager and longtime MLB player shared that neither he nor his fellow baseball-playing brother, Joey, are his mom Iris’s favorite player. Instead, she’s a fan of one of the former stars from the Red Sox’ top rival.
“When I was playing, her favorite player was Derek Jeter,” Cora told reporters on Mother’s Day, via MassLive’s Christopher Smith.
Cora, who was a middle infielder for the Red Sox from 2005-08, is able to laugh about it nearly two decades after his playing career ended.