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- Updated: July 19, 2016
NEW YORK — Before heading back to Yankee Stadium for the 88th game of his season and the 1,330th game of his Major League career, Orioles center fielder Adam Jones was reminded once again how he reached his dream of playing in the Major Leagues.
He stood at the front of a long conference room table inside the MLB.com offices in Manhattan, answering questions from 20 teenage boys who were treated to his visit as part of their six-week intensive course with All Star Code, a non-profit that gives underserved young men of color access to to the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math.
“What was your biggest failure, and how were you able to gain the confidence to try again?” asked one of the students, Brian Antoine, 15, a junior at Eastern Christian High School in Bloomfield, N.J.
Jones replied by explaining how, when he was their age, he would sell candy door-to-door in affluent neighborhoods around his hometown of San Diego. He told them how he tried to “leave my mark” in a place where few scouts passed by, and about how he started his pro career homesick in chilly Appleton, Wis., staying with a sponsor family while feeling out of place, yet determined to do whatever it took to make something positive happen.
“It’s the perseverance,” Jones told them. “I just grind it, man. I’ve seen so many people’s debuts. I’ve seen them up and down. I’ve seen 27-, 28-year-old men cry. I’ve seen their wives cry that they got sent back down to the Minor Leagues. …”
“This has been a complete blessing, what I’ve been through. When it comes to failure, the only failure is not wanting to learn. Not wanting to get better. I think that is failure. And that’s not what I’m about.”
Our boys eager for today’s first speaker @SimplyAJ10 to step the plate #SummerofCode #SI16 #SpeakerSeries #ASCxMLBAM pic.twitter.com/ePKas1m0UZ
– All Star Code (@AllStarCode) July 19, 2016
Our boys eager for today’s first speaker @SimplyAJ10 to step the plate #SummerofCode #SI16 #SpeakerSeries #ASCxMLBAM pic.twitter.com/ePKas1m0UZ
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