This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

You're arguably one of the best baseball players of all time.

I'm trying to think of all these components of what transformed you from a talented, obsessed kid to one of the best players of all time.

And it's never a matter of just talent.

It's never a matter of just skill.

It's never a matter of just practice.

It's kind of a combination of all these things.

There's also an element of luck.

Jotory, the first baseman for the Cardinals, hurt his hand.

Yes.

You were the obvious choice to move up.

And boom, now you're in the major leagues.

And two and a half years removed from high school.

Did you own a plan B?

I had no plan B.

To this day, I don't know what I would have done if I didn't make it.

I had a high school education and I was a good student, but I didn't want to go back to college.

Since I was five years old when my father put the first bat in my hands.

I started throwing tennis balls to me and telling us stories about Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.

We taught us the history and the lore of the game and I just fell in love with it.

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