There is something about seeing a band just before they make it. Maybe you saw them in a dingy bar, maybe you saw them as an opening act for a band that was clearly inferior to them, but it is cool to say “I saw them way back when!”
The same goes for ballplayers. We may see them on our TV as polished big leaguers, but at one time they were raw minor leaguers or even unproven amateurs.
Danny Vietti at CBS Sports wanted to know, who did you see before they “made it”?
Name a baseball player you saw in person before they made it big in the big leagues.