Most baseball players spend thousands of hours practicing, playing and learning about baseball on their way to the to the Major Leagues, IF they’re even good enough and lucky enough to be one of the tiny fraction of players that make it to the Big Leagues.Some become stars and/or stick around for 10 or more years, living out their childhood fantasies.Some go up and down between AAA and the Big Leagues and of course, there's everything in between.Today, Parker and I talk about a pitcher whose dream came true on a rainy June evening at Citi Field in New York in 2010.Jim Leyland once said “15 minutes in the Majors means you’re a great baseball player”, when describing how hard it was to make it to the Big Leagues.That rainy day in New York,  Jay Sborz fell about 2 and a half minutes short of that 15-minute mark as he debuted for the Detroit Tigers and the dream he had worked for most of his life came true, fell apart and ended, all within 12 minutes and 30 seconds…Sources for this episode are Baseball-Reference.com (Jay Sborz)YouTube.com (Sborz enters the game around the 2:09:00 mark)“Where Nobody Knows Your Name”True Tales of the Big Leagues is a Seldom Used Reserve Podcast and is narrated by Marty Coleman and Parker Coleman. Co-executive producers are Parker Coleman and Marty Coleman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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