The Underdog Newsletter
The best sports stories you've never heard & powerful lessons from underdogs beating the odds.
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Labeled for life at 3 years old, he flipped the script and became a world champion no one saw coming.
He warmed the bench in high school and worked a factory job for $2.75 an hour on his way to becoming Larry Bird's favorite teammate.
He was benched in college, cut in the pros, and worked 5 jobs at a time on his way to the big leagues.
Division III schools have produced some pretty incredible MLB talent.
8 teams sent him home – including the one that eventually signed him. Here's how it happened.
“I don’t see him as a one-armed basketball player. In fact, it seems like he has four arms.”
After beating cancer, Aaron Rouselle is doing the unthinkable and inspiring teammates half his age.
This former junior college walk-on ignored the doubters and “bugged” his way into pro baseball.
After two unthinkable tragedies, he made it farther than anyone ever imagined.
He went from pumping gas at 19 years old to becoming a Hockey Hall of Famer.
He went from fetching cheeseburgers at 2 AM to building an NFL dynasty.
People laughed at him in high school. Now he's gearing up for football's biggest stage.
