Even though he didn’t play in the Little League Classic game on Sunday, New York Yankees star Jazz Chisholm Jr. made a significant impact during the day.
He made a special bond with a Little League player that will last forever. When the Yankees arrived in Williamsport, Penn.,, they were greeted with the players participating in the Little League World Series.
A player from the Henderson, Nev., team ran up to the Yankees third baseman and told him that he is his best friend’s favorite player.
And guess what happened after?
Chisholm got the chance to sit with Russel McGee on the bus ride to the complex in Williamsport and Chisholm found out that McGee wears a neck chain with the No. 2 on it because of him. During his time with the Miami Marlins, Chisholm wore that number.
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Right before they got off the bus, Chisholm told McGee something that he will never forget.
“I’m going to be your big brother from here on. … I’ve got you; just give me a call.”
For a kid to hear these words from an MLB player–it doesn’t get much better than that at all.
“He’s just a bright-eyed kid,” Chisholm said. “He reminded me so much of myself when I was younger when I first got into professional baseball.”
Playing in the Little League World Series is a once in a lifetime opportunity for these kids, and then on top of that, you get a chance to meet and interact with MLB players.
Chisholm wants to make sure that McGee knows he can reach out to him for anything and it made Chisholm think about the players who had his back when he was younger.
“Me and him were talking and I was like, ‘Man, I remember when JP, Dom and CC really made me their little brother and made sure I was good,” he said.
“Any time I called them, they would answer, even with CC just retiring around that time and being a Yankee great. Even with Dom Smith and JP, just having guys like that in your corner and as friends, it helps a lot.”
Relationships like this are so important and it’s great to see players like Chisholm wanting to be a part of young kids’ lives.
And Chisholm had a blast being a fan watching his team take on the Detroit Tigers.
“I had a lot of fun, especially when I sat with Russell,” he said. “I sat with him for like three or four innings. It was just a lot of fun getting to react like a kid. I’m screaming at the guys on deck. I’m pointing at them. I did a Roll Call with the crowd. It was just reminding me of days of when I was in Little League and just meeting the guys that I’ve met in my life with the way they’ve taken care of me and seeing Russell out there. It just made me feel that way again.”
It’s a great experience for both the Little League players and MLB players to be a part of and it will be exciting to see how Chisholm and McGee’s relationship grows overtime.
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