I want you to picture this scene, OK. And we were standing inside Olympia Stadium. And it is absolutely packed to the rafters.

After his discharge in 1958, he kept trying. He secured tryouts with the California Angels and the New York Mets in the early 60s. But neither team picked him up, right. The arm injury just proved to be too much of a liability for them.

• Here is the amazing part of this story
• Because this is a master class in defying expectations and reinventing yourself when your very first dream just dies
• Though when he was 14, his mother bought him his first guitar
• He refused to quit, even when he was drafted into the U