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No “Hey Beer Man” for Josh Hamilton

Posted on May 4, 2025 by davidbloom

From the News and Observer, Josh Hamilton gets out of some of the Rookie duties and for good reason.

‘The Cincinnati Reds usually make the club’s rookies carry the beer cooler onto the team plane for road trips.Raleigh’s Josh Hamilton doesn’t have to, and it’s not because he has earned a spot in the Reds’ starting lineup.

Hamilton is a recovering alcoholic whose professional baseball career was almost derailed because of alcohol and drug abuse.

“They asked me to carry the beer one time, and I told them I felt very uncomfortable doing that,” he said Thursday by phone from Houston.’

“No one has ever asked me to carry it again. Everybody knows my story.”

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