Autograph hound:

Growing up, Mike Trout’s idol was Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. So it was only natural that Trout tried to get his autograph. But when the opportunity presented itself, it was at the unlikeliest time and in the unlikeliest place: On the field during a game when he was a rookie in 2011.

“I think I was on second base when I asked him, ‘If I send a ball over, can you sign it?’” Trout once told Dan Patrick on his radio show. “It’s like a blur now. I don’t even remember what I said because I was so nervous and so star-struck.”

But Jeter obliged. After the game, he signed the ball Trout sent over.

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