Back in 2004, when Green was still playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he told MLB.com that yoga kept him fit and flexible while attuning his mind to the game.
Shawn Green accomplished a lot in his 15 years in Major League Baseball (MLB). He's led the league in doubles, extra base hits and total bases, won the Silver Slugger and Golden Glove Awards, played for four teams in Canada and the U.S. and, through it all, used yoga to maintain a careful life balance.
According to MLB.com, Green's new autobiography – The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH – recounts his reliance on mindfulness and yoga through his decade and a half of slugging.
The book is as much a meditation on…well, meditation as it is an insightful baseball memoir. Holistic pursuits, said the the long-time right fielder, were there from the beginning.
"Even in high school, I was attracted to the power and peace of a mental approach and to the Eastern philosophy… I can recall my interest in yoga, and early on I felt all of this could be applied to baseball as well as to everyday life itself," he revealed to the news source.
Back in 2004, when Green was still playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he told MLB.com that yoga kept him fit and flexible while attuning his mind to the game.
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