Bernie Williams knows that many people recognize him for having wore thin stripes, hitting on both sides of the plate and winning World Series titles with New York Yankees. This is where his main heritage lies in the baseball game.
However, over the years, Manning Centerfield for the Yankees, Williams’ love for music, especially the guitar, has always been widespread.
He reminded PK Press Club Digital How, one day in the Yankees clubhouse, the legend of rock Bruce Springsteen was walking to meet the players. Usually, the Yankees are those invited to an autograph, but this time, Springsteen was the main attraction when he was making his way through the clubhouse.
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Former Yankee Bernie Williams plays the national anthem on the guitar at the enthronement ceremony of the 2021 Baseball Temple on Wednesday September 8 in Cooperstown, New York. The ceremony honored the members of the 2020 class: Derek Jet, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker. (Imagn)
Williams, however, did not want autographs on a bat or baseball. It was too simple.
“So, I have this Fender Telecaster in my locker and I said to him:” Hey, are you going to sign this? I’m not going to have you signed a ball or a bat. I think it would be really cool, “said Williams. “So, he signed the guitar saying:” In Bernie, if you get tired of baseball … “”
Springsteen, a sorcerer on stage, may have planned that the Williams Swing Sweging getting into music in the future. It is his musical career, post-Baseball, which is used to honor the heritage of his late father, while helping others along the way.
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This Friday marks the day of rare diseases, and Williams spoke to PK Press Club Digital of his work with Tune In To To Lung Health, a program created to support patients struggling with interstitial pulmonary disease (ILD), as well as their loved ones.
The ILD causes irreversible scars of the lungs that can make breathing difficult – so difficult that there are many patients to transport oxygen tanks. The disease affects around 50,000 Americans each year and has no remedy.
Bernabé Williams Figueroa Sr. died in 2001 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an IDL type.
Bernabé Williams Figueroa Sr. died in 2001 while his son, Bernie Williams, played for New York Yankees. (Connect to lung health)
“It was he who taught me to play baseball,” recalls Williams about his father. “It was he who taught me to play music with my guitar and all that. All these things come together with this initiative, where I can really give back to the community, remember his inheritance and do great things to my mind also, be able to feel rewarded when I help other people to sail through these really difficult moments.”
This program explores how music and breathing can help people deal with the physical and mental aspects of the disease, and it allowed Williams to connect with patients and caregivers thanks to his music.
“Music has always been a really important part of my life, and as I get older, I can see how powerful music is in all aspects of life,” he said. “You can use it for healing. If you are emotional, it can help you go through difficult moments. You can use it to train. The power of music is so large, and for me, it seems to be obvious to introduce it and to try to be part of this campaign, which uses the power of music with a lot of these things you are experiencing when you live.
Thanks to the initiative website, Williams, which has a Latin Grammy nominated under his musical career belt, likes different ways in which patients and caregivers can use music and breathing exercises to improve their daily life.
“Breathing is a large part of [singing]Using your voice as an instrument, “he said.” The application for people who really appreciate every breath they take and everything that happens in their lives is also very important. Thus, having this information at hand, you can have these exercises to really improve the quality of your life. “”
Former New York Yankees Voltueur Bernie Williams at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruzusa today Sports)
Williams said this initiative was “very therapeutic” for him because it allows him to remember these good moments with his father through his other passion in life outside baseball.
In fact, Williams will be emblematic Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey, with his group on March 27 – MLB Opening Day – to play songs and have a conversation by the fireside with fans, which will understand this initiative.
The place of the shore of Jersey Signature is that that Springsteen made his debut. It was the start of a path to the greatness of rock, and finally, to a busy professional baseball player to share his own music with the world.
They would connect again on this path.
“20 years later, I play on stage with him for one of these dinners of the Ke Torre Safe at Home Foundation. [Springsteen] was a guest artist, and he brought me on stage, and we had this great acoustic version of “Glory Days” that we played together, he and his wife. It was a great moment in my young musical career. This is one of the things I remember and that I will never forget, “said Williams.
Bernie Williams’ love for music was linked to his initiative with Tuned to Lung Health, who honors his late father. (Connect to lung health)
Williams will not forget the man who taught him scratch this guitar either.
“As long as I suffer, I will try to give people information and try to educate people about what I have experienced and what my father has gone through,” said Williams.
