Daniel norris detroit tigers biography for kids

I live my life in search of three things:

Eternal life
The strike zone
Good waves

-- Daniel Norris

Daniel Norris wrote about his life today at The Players' Tribune, trying to show a little more of himself than the van-living, ax-shaving, surfing nature boy who beat cancer that he's typically painted as. And as Norris points out, while he is all of those things. He's something else first.

Take a look above at my list of interest and hobbies. The van. The outdoors. Surfing. Now look at the term that comes before each one. It's what defines me just as much --€” probably more than any of these other things.

Baseball player.

When he's out on the ocean waiting for a wave, Norris is thinking about baseball. When he's driving his van across the country, he's thinking about baseball. When he was baptized, he was baptized in a baseball uniform (and he lists his search for eternal life as his

And that is an important message for Norris to get across. My first thought as I started to read the story today was that we're just two or three years away from Norris, just age 22, deciding that baseball was fun, but it's time to hang up the cleats, put away the gloves and spend the rest of his life living on the beach.

Again and again, Norris makes the point that that's just n