The Underdog Newsletter
The best sports stories you've never heard & powerful lessons from underdogs beating the odds.
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He learned to play QB from YouTube videos & walked on as a 9th-stringer. Now he's a legend.
This 4'8" high schooler turned equipment manager signed for $1 on his way to making MLB history.
He made $5.50/hr as his dream slipped away. Then a mysterious bug bite almost ended everything.
The untold story of a 7th-round draft pick who left the sport at his peak for something bigger.
...and became one himself. Here's the secret formula of a D2 grinder who silenced the boo's.
After his birth parents abandoned him at the hospital, this guy flipped the script and redefined what's possible.
He didn't want anyone to know what happened. But the story got out anyway...
"Y'all missed one." He turned off the TV & did reps on the bench press for everybody who was drafted ahead of him.
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.
