The relationship between Yankees outfielder Cameron Maybin and his mother, Renee, is one built on trust. “She’s always been an honest parent, never sugarcoated anything,” he says. They’ve talked regularly throughout Maybin’s MLB career, one that’s spanned eight teams across 13 seasons—over 1,100 games, of which he says Renee has watched every single one. They were open about everything. So it came as a surprise when, last November, Renee revealed to Cameron and his sister, Camille, that she’d been hiding something from them: a breast cancer diagnosis.
“I think she knew for a while but was just trying to figure out how to tell [us],” Maybin says.