Two days ago, Aaron Judge walked into our photo shoot and everyone marveled at his size. The guy is big. Of course he is—the Yankees captain has smashed records and earned three MVPs. After the shoot, he spoke to Esquire for our What I’ve Learned interview series and revealed a whole other side of himself. You can read it below. —Michael Sebastian, editor in chief
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The towering right fielder is an all-time great power hitter, but far more than the stats, he cares about being a good man, a good father, and a good teammate. And, of course, putting the New York Yankees back on top.
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Aaron Judge is one of those athletes your kids will tell their grandkids about. The Yankees right fielder stands among the greatest players of his generation and, at thirty-four, he’s already cemented himself in the franchise’s storied history. Last year he achieved a different kind of milestone—he became a dad for the first time. How did he reach this point in his career and life, and what hard-earned lessons has he learned along the way?
"Being adopted, it doesn’t matter where you came from or who your parents are; it’s about people showing up for you ... They brought me into their home and loved me like I was their own."
"A Knicks championship in June and a Yankees World Series in October would bring world peace."
"The impact you leave person-to-person is what really matters."
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Even if you only pay the running world the smallest amount of attention, you’ve likely heard about a fancy new footwear trend called “super-shoes” that have demolished previous world records. I’ll save you the techy jargon: the shoes have an extra-bouncy foam that’s easier on the legs and a carbon-fiber plate embedded under the forefoot, acting like a spring. The majority of super-shoes are made for road-running, but the excursion I was planning would be covering terrain of many kinds, including rocky trails and sandy beaches. I needed something beefier, more rugged, but with the same enhanced support and comfort.
Enter: the trail super-shoe. Specifically, the On CloudUltra Pro. With these bad boys on my feet, I’m feeling a little more confident about race day.
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In a world where short-form video rockets across the world in seconds, journalism is shifting rapidly away from written reporting to “storytelling” on podcasts, and, chrissakes, robots are doing most of the writing, it can be easy to forget that for most of this nation’s history—all of it, we’d argue—what could really command the American culture’s attention was a thing called a book. The original long-form. Tens of thousands of words ejected from an artist’s mind after a lengthy, often painful process of research, meditation, and incessant scribbling.
So for this 250th year of our great nation, Esquire has compiled a list of our Most American Books. A few ground rules. The first and most obvious: This isn’t a list of best books, favorite books, or books you must read before you die. It’s books that exemplify America. Next: No short stories, no collections of essays, no poetry, no plays, no graphic novels. These are all wonderful art forms, to be sure. But, frankly, we needed a way to narrow our efforts to comb through 25 decades of literature. Third: This isn’t the syllabus for your high school English class. We crossed off the usual suspects, because you’ve already read them and because if your 11th-grade homeroom teacher already told you a book is essential reading for an inchoate American citizen, what do you need us for?
But more important, they mean that the list that follows is sure to contain at least a couple books you haven’t read, maybe haven’t even heard of, and that undoubtedly will make you see the country in a fresh, new way.
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