Barry Weinberg

Barry Weinberg

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Sometimes we can’t see the picture because we are within the frame. We never step back and look at the magnitude of what we do or appreciate the number of people we have affected.  How special our lives have become because of the decisions we make that dictate the paths we take.

In a 33-year Major League career, I have experienced 14 playoffs, 7 World Series, with 3 World Championships, Oakland A’s 1989, St. Louis Cardinals 2006, 2011 and I have been the Athletic Trainer for 4 Major League All-Star games.

I have met the most amazing people in all walks of life.  Every different sport, entertainment, politics, music, and the great people you meet daily walking the streets of this great country.

“Every Mile a Memory,” a song by my friend and country music star Dierks Bentley has been my theme song to the many memories I have experienced over the many miles I have traveled through the Minor Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Major Leagues with the New York Yankees, Oakland A’s and  St. Louis Cardinals.

This endeavor, “Eating My Way Through Baseball” explains it all. I can’t cook nor do I try; I eat out every meal at some of the coolest places and with the coolest people all over the world. Hard to believe that a boy from Silver Spring, MD., Edith and Harold’s only Son has walked so many miles and made so many memories from the locker rooms to the dugouts, to dinner tables. I hope you enjoy these stories and great restaurants around the League and throughout this country. 

Life is a journey, enjoy the meal!

Uncle Barry

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

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