BOSTON -- As the Blue Jays milled about Fenway Park's visitors' clubhouse on Labor Day morning, hip-hop music thumping in the background of light-hearted conversation, a select group of players had one peculiar addition to their lockers -- a fuzzy teddy bear.
Some were tie dye, others purple and one locker even held a little girl's doll instead of a bear. The common theme was that each belonged to a player who began the season with less than a year of Major League service time.
"Rookie stuff," second baseman Ryan Goins said. "So you have to have it everywhere with you -- everywhere.