NEW YORK, NY - MAY 16: (L-R) Amber Sabathia and CC Sabathia attend CC Sabathia Celebrity Softball Game at Yankee Stadium on May 16, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Images)
CC Sabathia’s documentary ‘Under the Grapefruit Tree’ is a must watch to understand his Yankees tenure.
When Charles Carsten “CC” Sabathia Jr. was growing up in Vallejo, California, one way he would practice pitching was by throwing grapefruits at his grandmother’s lawn chair.
Such is the stuff on which legends are built. Sabathia’s anecdote invokes a spectrum of experiences, from Mariano Rivera learning to play baseball with a cardboard glove to the “wax on, wax off” car-washing of the The Karate Kid.