Behind every successful American sports story lies the journey of players striving for glory with their teams. In the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers, one notable teammate of Shohei Ohtani has shared an emotional narrative about his early baseball beginnings in his hometown.

In an interview with “Mas con Mota,” a Spanish-language MLB podcast, the Cuban player Andy Pages recounted how he acquired his first bats before embarking on his professional baseball career. “My bats were hard to come by, especially when I wasn’t yet representing any team or anything,” Vargas explained.

Vargas continued, “I just practiced and played in my neighborhood. My father, who worked in carpentry, approached a friend who worked with wood. He said, ‘Listen, I need some bats for my kid.’ That friend was the fir

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