Shane Victorino recalls his career in MLB, his childhood in Maui and his frequent travels to the emergency room

Honolulu (Hawaii) – After 12 seasons of diving capture, it is obvious why Shane Victorino of Maui is nicknamed “Flyin'Hawaiian”.

However, Victorino revealed in an interview with Barstool sports podcast “Pardon My Take” that he had been flying around in the air when he was growing up at Wailuku – once launched from a moving car and then several years later, he was hit by a man.

“Along the road in your hometown, the door fell down, and little Shane was on the side where the door fell, and he got out of it,” Victorino said. “The old lady was 30 miles an hour and hit me, and she said I flew 20 yards.”

Victorino said he had never been hit in the game even though he went to the emergency room 10 times before he was five.

Despite his sporting sport, the boys on this island never learned to surf.

He said: “When I was a kid, when I was a kid, I was really not good at it, I worked hard, I didn’t love the ocean, I was always scared.”

On land, baseball is always at the bottom of the lineup.

“Football is my favorite sport. I think I'm going to be the next Bailey,” he said.

Then there is football, then the track.

Even though he was scouted by the University of Hawaii baseball team, he faced one of the biggest skeptics near his home.

“I had a mom looking at me and saying ‘You’re never going to be a big league, that’s not the reality, you go to college to get a diploma or get an education.”

Meanwhile, Victoria was pulled onto the grill.

“I had some scholarships to play baseball at the University of Hawaii. I was selected that day and I offered full riding in June Jones because the kicking scholarship was coming up and I was a football player.”

Eventually, Victoria chose Diamonds and was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers at the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft.

He retired in 2018 and served as a two-time World Series champion (2008, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox in 2013), two All-Star and four Golden Gloves titles.

Now, Victorino focuses on being a husband of three and coaches his Hawaiian youth baseball team in Las Vegas.

“My thought at the end of the day, how many baseball players are walking on the planet, I have to play in the major leagues for 10 years. It's even a smaller proportion, so it's like 'How lucky!'.”