CLEVELAND — Tommy La Stella wanted to see it for himself, breathe it in, maybe even bask in it just a little.
“Just to be here among the best players in the game was an opportunity I didn’t want to pass up,” he said.
But the ex-Cub and current Angels second baseman didn’t want to arrive at his first All-Star Game unable to play due to injury. He certainly didn’t want to be pushed through the crowd at the Huntington Convention Center, site of Monday’s media day, in a wheelchair.
La Stella — who fouled a ball off his right shin last week, fracturing his tibia — also walked on crutches where he could.