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My first coach, I was 10, had moved to the USA from Pakistan when he was a teenager. He was a huge Pirates fan, every summer until I was 13, he would take his son and I to a Pirates game. To this day, Manny Sanguillen is still one of my favorite players. He helped to grow my love for baseball. The biggest impact was that he didn’t cut me from the team at tryouts. I was cut when I was 8 and 9 (remember them days old timers), he stuck with me and by the time I was 12, I became a starter at 2nd and never looked back.

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