Schmidt’s retirement shook baseball
But Michael Jack Schmidt knew that if he couldn’t be the best version of himself, he had no desire to remain on the diamond.
“I might be the happiest person in the stadium,” said Schmidt during his tear-filled press conference announcing his retirement. “When you wake up in the morning and you’re a lot happier to be a former player than you were to be a player the morning before, you know you’ve done the right thing. I can’t tell you how relieved I am.”
Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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