Time for Tua to Walk Away – Roy Firestone, Multi Emmy Award Winning Journalist

Up Close with Roy Firestone

I don’t know Tua Tagovailoa. I’ve never met him. By all accounts he is a very fine young man. He’s also, at age 26, so young and gifted he might be able to play football for another decade or so. That’s if he stayed healthy. I’m not in the business of telling people what they should do in their life. But if it were me, and had suffered those concussions, I know what I’d do.…

ROD CAREW  – Citizen, By Frank Pace – The Mook 

theMook - by Frank Pace (The Mook)

Legendary baseball player Rod Carew became an American citizen last month. As his long-time friend, I had the rare pleasure of attending his swearing-in ceremony. Fourteen-year-old Carew arrived here from Panama 64 years ago, and if baseball GMs had any idea of the impact that he would make on the game, they would have sent a limo for him. Rod won nearly every award a professional baseball player could: the 1967 American League Rookie of the Year, the…