ST. LOUIS -- At his home in Arizona, Pirates shortstop Kevin Newman keeps a handful of his most treasured baseball awards and accolades. He has an MVP award and a pair of batting titles from his time in the Cape Cod League, along with plenty of hardware he earned at the University of Arizona. This offseason, he'll add two glass-encased baseballs currently sitting inside his place in Pittsburgh: his first Major League hit and his first RBI.
"All that stuff is pretty important," Newman said on Monday. "None probably as cool as my first Major League hit.