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When Willie Mays hit the big leagues at 19, he couldn’t get the little kid out of himself, didn’t want to anyway and used to play stickball on the New York streets. On Monday, on his first full day in Washington as a big leaguer, Bryce Harper, 19, visited the Lincoln Memorial, then stopped on the Mall near the Washington Monument. That’s where they have the public softball fields. Day off, new town, what are you going to do?
You might think a teenager in blue jeans and a ballcap might go unnoticed but, as Harper admitted: “They see the rat tail and the tattoos. I think they can notice that.”
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