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How three Mormon baseball players made the majors and the wives who supported them

Nicole Hill Gerulat

SALT LAKE CITY — Shayli Hannemann was sure her husband had been injured, and she was not happy.

Before his last game with the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, on Sept. 4, center fielder Jacob Hannemann’s wife informed him he was not to risk harm to himself in any way. They had loaded their vehicle with luggage for their offseason road trip home from Omaha, Nebraska, to Utah, and she insisted on having a healthy husband.

“He’s had his fair share of injuries,” Shayli Hannemann said.