The Players’ Tribune sits down with Hanley Ramirez and his surrogate father, David Ortiz, to celebrate fathers day. They tell the story of Hanley and the cheesecake, and Ramirez gets a gift of expensive Scotch. Those are two of my favorite things. There is also this:

David
Oh, you don’t wanna know. Hahaha. Ohhh, no. But what I’m saying is, it’s how we are. We want to make every one of us happy. We know what struggle means. We know how important it is to have your second family. When I see people struggle, it bothers me. I don’t care if you play for any other ball club. I remember, I saw this thing that Jackie Robinson said about how the importance of life is not what you do for yourself, it’s when you make a difference in somebody else’s life. That’s so true.

The story is well worth the read.