A first-person account from Curtis Granderson as told to Adam Wells.
Over the course of my 16-year MLB career, I played for and against the New York Yankees in the playoffs. My first exposure to October baseball was in 2006 with the Detroit Tigers in an American League Division Series against the Bronx Bombers.
During that series, I remember seeing Denzel Washington sitting behind our dugout at Yankee Stadium. I looked over at Justin Verlander to tell him to get a DVD from our locker room and ask Denzel to sign it because that was my mindset in the middle of a playoff game in New York.