Jim Leyritz on the Highs and Lows of His Baseball Career

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 15, 2011

Former major leaguer Jim Leyritz talks about two events that tested his faith in different ways—his home run during the 1996 World Series that turned the series around for the Yankees and eventually led to the team's first world championship in 18 years, and the 2007 car accident he was involved in that resulted in a woman’s death—and why he decided that he would not let his life be defined by either of them. In Catching Heat: The Jim Leyritz Story he writes about his professional and personal highs and lows.

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