Rod Beck and His Trailer
Trailer Bash: The Place to Go Where No One Knows Your Name (Wayne Drehs, ESPN.com, 5/16/2003)
A profile of Rod Beck, who’s currently living in a trailer outside Sec Taylor Stadium in Des Moines.
Beck on autograph seekers:
Complete strangers. Yet Beck welcomes them like longtime friends. Even autograph collectors, who admit they’re going to take the signature Beck just gave them and sell it for a profit, are welcome.
“Hey, if you can make money off me defacing a baseball card,” Beck says, “Good luck.”
And on the lack of velocity on his fastball in spring training:
“I think half the time, I was throwing my fastball, but they thought it was a change.”
There are plenty of other good quotes. And it really sounds like he’d like to pitch for the Cubs.