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32-Year-Old Red Sox Rookie Followed God’s Call to MLB

32-Year-Old Red Sox Rookie Followed God’s Call to MLB

By Movieguide® Contributor

Cam Booser, one of the oldest rookie players on the Boston Red Sox, is thanking God for the opportunity.

“I think that was just understanding the moment and understanding where I was. And really just thanking God for the opportunity, and just understanding what a blessing it was to step onto that mound tonight,” the 32-year-old told reporters of his MLB debut earlier this year.

Per Sports Spectrum, “The left-handed Booser has made 27 relief appearances with the Red Sox so far this season, with a 3.00 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 30 innings pitched. But as is often the case, that first appearance is seared into his mind forever (April 19 in Pittsburgh). It’s one he’d envisioned millions of times.”

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“I had to thank God for the blessing of just being able to have that opportunity just to be able to stand on that field with the Boston Red Sox,” he said of getting to play with the team. “It’s still crazy to me to even say.”

Booser’s journey to the MLB is a testimony to God’s faithfulness.

He suffered many injuries throughout his career which resulted in him turning to alcohol to help deal with the pain and stress.

Those injuries include “a 2007 knee injury, a fractured vertebrae in high school, a 2011 Tommy John surgery, and a broken lower back bone after being hit by a car in 2015 — continued to pile up. Booser decided to call it quits and retire from baseball later in 2017, at the age of 25, having never made it past Single-A,” Sports Spectrum reported.

After stepping away from baseball, Booser became a carpenter.

“I found a sense of purpose, and in that sense of purpose I was able to put one foot in front of the other each day,” Booser told CBS. “And before I knew it, I started not hating looking in the mirror. I made a promise to God that if He’d help me get sober, I would do anything He wanted me to do.”

Booser started to fall in love with baseball again and decided to coach kids at a baseball camp. With the desire to play weighing on him every day, he decided to start training.

“I wanted to come back and play because I felt like I owed the game more than I gave it,” he said.

“Through God’s grace and His mercy, I was able to find an affiliated job again with Arizona,” Booser confirmed in the Boston Red Sox video.

“Through His grace and His mercy, now I’m sitting here at Fenway Park,” Booser added.


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