And he goes out of his way to do this for kids. "And he'll probably go down as the greatest ever. "Here you have by far the best player in baseball," said Jason, whose hands shook as he took video. And talking about the weather with Mike Trout. And doing high-knee stretches with Mike Trout. Gavin, who rarely lacks for words, was speechless. You obviously don't want to make him feel too overwhelmed." We all started talking to him and got to make him feel comfortable. Just interaction with the guys, bringing him on the field, watching BP, I think it's special for him."Īt first, Trout said, Gavin "was shy, but after a couple minutes, he started talking to us. Any chance you get to make a kid's day - you don't know what they're going through. He's going to live with that forever, and he's going to tell all his friends. I thought it was a great experience for him. "I saw him, wearing my jersey, and I think it's everybody's dream to be messing around with big league players," Trout said in an interview last week. Jason said to Julie: "Is he talking to us?" He pointed down at Gavin, then toward Trout, who nodded. Suddenly, he looked at Gavin and waved him over. Trout was stationed near Albert Pujols, Kole Calhoun and Luis Valbuena. The Angels started stretching along the third-base line. Gavin Edelson describing the day he got to join Mike Trout on the field at Camden Yards ![]() "I remember it's the best day of my life, because I got to hang out with Mike Trout." Ebel said he'd see what he could do this year. They thanked him for everything he did in 2017. Ebel was the first person to emerge from the Angels' dugout. Jason secured passes to watch batting practice on the field. The ball, the sign, the glove - it couldn't get any better. As he walked off the field after hitting a pair of home runs, he tossed a batting glove to Gavin. He asked for the sign and autographed it. Dino Ebel, then the Angels' bench coach, saw Gavin and pointed him out to Trout. They returned the next day, to the same seats as two years earlier near the Angels' dugout. The fans surrounding the Edelsons yelled at Trout to acknowledge Gavin. By the time the Edelsons returned to Camden Yards for an Angels game two years later, Gavin came with a poster that read: MIKE TROUT'S #1 FAN. He then got a jersey and wore matching baseball pants and spent his days walking around and swinging like Trout, a perfect little simulacrum. The next morning, he woke up and put on a red T-shirt, gray sweatpants and red socks. Little did they realize what it would turn into. As Trout prepared for his at-bat, Gavin started to mimic Trout's every movement. They sat in the fourth row on the visitor's side, right next to the on-deck circle. His older brother, Jake, always seemed to pull Trout cards out of packs, and for Jake's birthday, Jason and Julie took the family to see an Angels-Orioles game at Camden Yards. "Because I got to hang out with Mike Trout." Joe NoyesįROM THE FIRST moment Gavin Edelson saw Mike Trout, he felt a kinship. ![]() "I remember it's the best day of my life," Gavin said. ![]() He'll head to Camden Yards before the game, properly Troutfitted, and hope Friday is a lot like June 29, 2018. local time, though for Gavin it will begin a bit earlier. ![]() Mike Trout shares his thoughts on other elite players around the game and more.Īs much as he adores those mornings, Gavin positively lives for the one series a year the Angels play in Baltimore. Every morning, Jason and Julie Edelson are awoken by their younger son barging in to turn on MLB Network to see how Trout fared the previous night. It doesn't matter that Trout plays for the Los Angeles Angels and Gavin lives in suburban Baltimore. In his room, there are the bobbleheads, the figurines, the mess of baseball cards, all part of the small shrine to Mike Trout. Whenever I go to a fancy dinner, they make me wear a collared shirt. And right now, I'm wearing a Trout shirt. "Every night before bed, I read a Mike Trout book. "You want me to tell you what his wife's name is?" he said. There's the white jersey and the red one and the gray one and the All-Star one and the one with Mike Trout's nickname on the back, which might be the coolest of all, because other 7-year-olds probably aren't big enough fans to know his nickname.Ĭome to think of it, Gavin knows a lot more about Trout. Beever's first-grade classroom every morning, it's a safe bet he will be dressed in one of his Troutfits.
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