HBT: Cubs asked to give injured player an at-bat

Adam Greenberg made his major league debut for the Chicago Cubs in 2005. In his first trip to the plate he was hit in the head and suffered a severe, major league career-ending concussion and positional vertigo.

Though he came back and played in the Cubs, Dodgers, Royals and Angels organizations ? and while he has taken his hacks in indy ball ? a man named?Matt Liston has started a push to get the Cubs to give Greenberg another chance at a major league at bat:

Sports activist Matt Liston, a diehard Chicago Cubs fan, has rallied more than 10,000 people who have signed?a Change.org petition?calling on the Cubs to give former player Adam Greenberg one more opportunity to bat in a Cubs uniform ???For anyone who?s ever dreamed of playing professional sports ? Adam was there and had his dream taken from him with one pitch,? said Liston. ?As a lifelong baseball fanatic, I want to see Adam get the at bat he deserved after working so hard in college and the minor leagues to pursue a career in Major League Baseball.?

I am sympathetic to the impulse, and it?s sad that Greenberg was never able to make it back. ?But there are a lot of guys who never even got Greenberg?s chance. And a lot of guys who, even if given the chance, also had their careers ended by bad luck and injury. ?Even if he?s never had an official at bat, he has had a plate appearance, and as everyone knows, that counts. And even if he gets one more shot, his real legacy is and always will be fighting for three years to make the bigs in the first place. Which is noble, honorable and is a far greater success than almost every other person who has played organized baseball.

I won?t mind if the Cubs give him another shot, but even though it makes me something of a killjoy, I don?t know why Greenberg should get it when no one else gets it. And I don?t know what it accomplishes.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/04/a-lot-of-people-want-to-see-adam-greenberg-get-an-at-bat-in-the-bigs/related/

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