Former Royals player Reggie Sanders recently stood on a baseball field near his home in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and marveled.
A group of children, all aged 5 to 10, had gathered there to work with the Reggie Sanders Foundation, which he founded in 2012 to empower individuals with autism. They spent their time on the diamond that day playing and often repeating one phrase:
“I want to be like Tarik one day.”
And Sanders, who is in his second year as a special adviser for baseball operations in the Royals’ front office, could hardly come to grips with it.