David Eckstein Thrives Post Baseball With An Out-Of-This-World Business

David Eckstein always seemed a little out of place in the baseball world. He was listed, generously, at 5-foot-7, 175 pounds, and seemed closer in stature to the batboys than to his peers. He crowded the plate in a low, wobbly crouch while choking up nearly three inches, and he fielded his position with even less grace: a shortstop and second baseman, he didn’t throw the baseball as much as shot-put it, as if every toss across the diamond required the physical effort of scaling Kilimanjaro. “My arm looks terrible,” says Eckstein, now 39 and four years into retirement. “I still hate watching myself throw on old highlights.”

Sports Illustrated