I always love it when two of my passions collide, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
But instead of peanut butter and chocolate, it’s baseball and bicycles. “Biker chic: O’s players using two wheels”. Several Baltimore Orioles are commuting to the ballpark on bikes.
On a balmy summer day, Orioles left fielder Luke Scott burst through the Camden Yards clubhouse door from the garage. Shirtless, with his backpack securely strapped around him, Scott wheeled his black bicycle in front of him, parking his method of transportation out in front of his locker.
Orioles pitcher Jeremy Guthrie — a fanatical bike rider since he started playing professional baseball — sports a sticker on his locker that reads “one less car.”
And of course they wouldn’t be professional athletes without a little competition:
It has gotten to a point in the Orioles’ clubhouse where it’s so common that players are now vulnerable to be teased as much for their brand of bike as they are for anything else.
“My first bike I had was [a Schwinn and] I bought it at Target for like $170,” Scott said. “And I come riding in here and Jeremy starts hounding me and the rest of the guys, they’re like, ‘Man, you’re in The Show, you’ve got to have a Show bike.’”
There are a few more bike commuters scattered through the MLB, though it’s tough for folks in some areas with where the parks are. Still, they’re setting a good example for their fans.
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