Other than being the world’s best baseball player, Mike Trout is a regular guy.
He likes to hunt. He likes to fish. And he loves to root for the Eagles.
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been hooked on them,” Trout said the other day by phone from Anaheim, Calif.
Trout is not so different from thousands of other folks in the Philadelphia area, except that he’s a two-time American League Most Valuable Player who finished second three other times and draws straight-faced comparisons to legends such as Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.
At age 26, Trout is putting together his strongest statistical season for the Los Angeles Angels, despite missing 39 games from late May through mid-July because of a torn thumb ligament.