While the business side of baseball makes it much harder for players to stay with teams for a long time these days – even their hometown teams – that doesn’t mean those happy stories don’t happen anymore at all.
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Friday night Poway, CA native and lifelong San Diego Padres fan Alex Dickerson made his long-awaited Petco Park debut and turned it into his first major league hit for good measure, singling in the 11th inning in the Padres extra-inning loss to the Phillies.
As Beth Maiman reported, the moment was not lost on the young outfielder: “My biggest thing is that I know, it’s going to be exciting, I just got to make myself feel normal.