Since he was chosen for the National Baseball Hall, CC Sabathia has not had much time to reflect on honor.
Sabathia was quickly taken to Cooperstown the day after the announcement along with the other chosen, and has finished since then.
He made an appearance in Tokyo for the series of the Dodgers-Chicago puppies in Los Angeles in the Tokyo Dome. He visited the New York Yankees during spring training.
And he has seen his son, Carsten Sabathia III, play for the Houston Couchars.
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CC Sabathia and his mother, Margie Sabathia, hugged after Sabathia receives the call from the Baseball Hall at home in Alpine, NJ, January 21, 2025. (IMAGN)
It has been a whirlwind since that night, when Sabatia, surrounded by family and friends, reached the goal she had been dreaming since she collected a baseball. He began writing his speech in the Hall of Fame, something that can be stressful for men who have lived intense pressure during their game careers.
Sabathia revealed to Pak Gazette Digital what he hopes to convey with his words.
“I feel that I want the issue to be … many strong black women raised me. And I feel that, without them, I couldn’t be in this position,” Sabathia said. “I want that to be the issue of my speech. I don’t know how it will work, but that’s what I have been thinking since I was chosen.
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“Only all the positive black women who have been in my life who took me to this point, be it my grandmother, my mother, her friends, my aunts, my wife. So, I think I want that to be the subject of my speech.”
Sabathia has been open about women in her life, starting with her grandmother, whose rear patio had a grapefruit tree that provided perfect practice objects even if they were not baseball balls. He would launch them in a folding chair to perfect their skills.
His mother Margie sacrificed him with his father inside and outside the scene to make sure he had everything he needed to succeed. In 2019, Margie said she used to wear Catcher’s team to be the other half of the battery for her son.
And his wife, Amber, his high school girlfriend, was there in every step of the road, since they built a family and charity base outside the field while cutting the hitters.
The New York Yankes Setting Clear, CC Sabathia, poses with his family (from left to right), his daughter Cyia, his wife Amber, his son Carter and his daughter Jaeden. (Kim Klement/USA Today Sports)
Strong black women are not only a crucial element of Sabathia’s history. The black culture played an important role in the star in which it became. Baseball fans know everything about Sabathia’s crooked hat, the baggy shirt and the elegant Jordans used to use for each beginning.
Since he grew in an era in which hip-hop exploded and finally played where that genre was born, in New York, Sabathia embodied the person who dreamed of seeing in a baseball diamond that grew in Vallejo, California.
“I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I grew up with birth. Then, I grew up with that genre of music,” he explained.
“Even the way I wore my hat; the way I wore my uniforms; using the jredons; the big and loking uniform and all those different things. I just wanted to talk to the child in me. If I saw me in the mound when I was 9 years old, I would. [say]’I want to be like that’.
“Then, that was for me when I saw Dave Stewart, when I saw Ricky Henderson, when I saw Dave Parker. The loot they played, Ricky exploded in the neck and all these different things. That is what he wanted to be. Having an opportunity to see Andruw Jones as a teenager. He is two years older than me, but he was 18 playing in the world.” I want to be a teenager in the world. “
CC Sabathia celebrates after receiving the call from the Baseball Hall at home in Alpine, NJ, January 21, 2025. CC Sabathia, her mother Margie Sabathia and her daughter Ciaya Sabathia Toast. (IMAGN)
“All these different inspirations of black culture, or hip-hop culture, and became who I am and who was. It feels good, and it is incredible to be that representation and be that kind and have all those connections in that culture and world. It is very fun.”
Sabathia has some time to perfect her speech before sharing it with the world on July 27 in Cooperstown.
While he will make sure he mention the receptors, coaches and teammates during his time in MLB, he wants to highlight those who helped him reach that point and turned his back on each step of the road.
Fighting allergies with Xyzal
During his illustrious career, allergies were always something that Sabathia had to worry. Spring can be difficult with allergies, and Sabathia used to receive an opportunity from your team’s medical staff to face.
Now, when retirement, the luxury of a team of doctors and personnel has gone, and Sabathia needed to find the right medication to fight those symptoms, especially with golf as their last sports passion.
Xyzal, with whom he is now associated, was the perfect remedy.
The former New York Yankees pitcher, CC Sabathia, is in the field before a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago puppies during the Tokyo series in Tokyo Dome. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn images)
“My allergies have been horrible all my life. When I was a child, I went to school with rolls of toilet paper,” he said, laughing. “My allergies were super, super bad … So … I was just trying to find different things. I met Xyzal and discovered that you can take it at night.”
Now, Sabathia and his 14 -year -old son have been part of their night routine to make sure they can spend the baseball season without those annoying symptoms of allergy.
