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Yankee Legend Scott Brosius Retires
"The Greatest Yankee Ever", Scotty Brosius Has
Retired
Nov. 27- New York Yankees Future Hall of Fame Third baseman has officially announced his retirement from baseball today, at a press conference, where DailySkew reports were present.
After accomplishing all there was to accomplish in baseball, "Scott E", as some fans liked to call the former World Series MVP, is done.
"I'm just ready to be home,'' Brosius said at Linfield College, his old school. "I can look back with no regrets and know that everything I wanted to do as a baseball player, every dream I had, has been fulfilled, and there's nothing else for me to chase as a ballplayer.''
"I was surprised about Scott," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said at the baseball owners' meeting in Chicago. "But he wanted to retire a Yankee. He's a great warrior. I hate to lose him."
The Yankees did not want to re-sign the former World Series MVP. Although he could have tried to play elsewhere, he felt the toll on his wife and three children would be too high.
"I still feel like I could play, but I never wanted the game to feel like work,'' he said. "I never wanted to play the game when my heart was in two different places, and I was getting to that point where a huge side of me just wanted to be home, and I still had a job to do out in New York.''
Brosius guessed that he had missed about one-third of his 10-year-old daughter Allyson's life while on the road, but he wasn't 100% sure.
"I just never wanted to get to the point where I looked back 10 years or 20 years from now and my daughter asks me, 'Why weren't you there when I needed you?' And I would say, 'Well, because I wanted to play one more year.' I couldn't answer that question that way.''
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