![]() That's where the youngest will land this fall if the family delays the start of Pedro Jr.'s professional baseball career. The eldest is playing high school ball in Boca Raton, Florida. "And today, I was the center of attention of the whole city of New York." "I actually realized that I was somebody important, because I caught the attention of 60,000 people, plus you, plus the whole world watching a guy that, if you reverse time back 15 years ago, I was sitting under a mango tree without 50 cents to actually pay for a bus," Pedro Sr. It was following a bitter Game 2 loss in the 2004 American League Championship Series to the hated New York Yankees that his pitcher/poet/philosopher father unspooled what at once was a classic line, after some 56,000 full-throated denizens of Yankee Stadium lustily serenaded him throughout the game with chants of "Who's Your Daddy?! Who's Your Daddy?!" It became the Bronx's favorite taunt when, after another frustrating loss to the Yankees machine a month earlier Martinez told reporters, "I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy." ![]() The branches are very strong, and he would sit on one of them and do his homework." He tells me stories about how he would study and do his homework on the mango tree. "He has a little spot there where he grows food and vegetables. "It's in Manoguayabo, the place where my dad comes from. ![]() "It's still there!" exclaims Pedro Pablo Martinez Jr., 16, youngest son of Pedro You-Know-Who, Hall of Famer and the dad in this story.
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