“I wouldn’t be here without my parents, without [my wife] Morgan, without my Grandpa — certainly not without God,” said Toronto Blue Jays leftfielder Will Robertson.
Roberston is a graduate of Immaculate Conception School in Loose Creek, Fatima High School in Westphalia, and Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He played for minor-league teams before being called up to the Blue Jays on June 11, while his team was in St. Louis playing the Cardinals. “It was a very special moment to be at Busch Stadium … experiencing that from the opposing dugout is quite a different feeling,” he said.
Robertson’s wife and their baby daughter, Jonnie, travel with him from city to city to see him play. “We’re very proud to be Catholics from mid-Missouri,” said Robertson. “Whatever baseball brings, I still have my family, I still have my faith.”
He called to mind some good advice he received from Taos native and fellow Catholic Tom Henke, who was a devastating relief pitcher for the Blue Jays in the 1980s and later for the Cardinals. “He reached out to me when I was first drafted in 2019,” Robertson recalled. “He said: ‘It’s your journey, make it your own.’ Very simple advice, but something I took to heart.”
“We have a family who loves us, a great community, a great parish,” he stated. “So, if the worst-case scenario means the end of my baseball career, our worst day could actually be our best day.” Click here to read more from the Catholic Missourian.