Aaron Judge sizes up as baseball’s best new hope
by Sean Gregory
Aug 19, 2017
4 minutes
RARELY DO NACHOS MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE, NO MATTER how good the guacamole. But while Maria Baez was on her way to a Yankee Stadium concession stand one recent evening, a team employee offered her a spot in the Judge’s Chambers, a section of seats behind the right-field fence reserved for fans of the towering phenom Aaron Judge. Thanks to the young slugger’s head-spinning power at the plate—he entered mid-August leading the American League in home runs despite a recent slump—the invite-only cheering section has become New York City’s most coveted ticket since Hamilton. Clad in a team-issued black robe and waving a foam gavel, Baez was so eager to join the fray that she gave up on
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