Former Major Leaguer/Now TBS TV Analyst Curtis Granderson | Tell Me A Story I Don't Know

Curtis Granderson has his hands full these days. He juggles a schedule including his pre and post assignment for TBS’s Tuesday night baseball along with the post season, his role as president of the Players Alliance, his responsibilities with the baseball and educational academy and the GrandKids Foundation. All of this fashioned during and after an excellent 16 year career playing for 7 teams while hitting 344 homers and driving in almost a thousand runs! 
Granderson began his career with the Detroit Tigers but he also made stops in New York with both the Yankees and Mets yet never played for his home town teams, The Cubs or White Sox. He said he would have loved that yet he’s not disappointed because it might have been difficult. Every time he came to town there were friends, tickets and so many things to do he would wind up exhausted after a series.
“The reason I say no is part of it is after that two, three or four game series in town playing one of the two teams I would be so exhausted because I was seeing everyone and doing so many things," he says on the show.

Granderson lives very close to the University of Illinois at Chicago baseball field, named in his honor him after he donated five million dollars to build it. It was a way to also help kids in the area have the experiment of playing on a college field.
"I wanted the kids in the area an opportunity to play, practice and train on a college campus.”
To say the least, Granderson is not only a citizen of Chicago but to many communities and the game of baseball.
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