“When as a kid you are watching ‘SportsCenter’ before school starts every day, that’s all you’re really thinking about. Getting here was a lot of hard work that paid off.”
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As a kid, Max McGee dreamed of knocking out grand slam home runs at Citizens Bank Park and catching fly balls in centerfield. To say he was a driven player is putting it lightly.
But then McGee suffered a career-ending injury in 2008, during his senior year on Cherry Hill East’s varsity baseball team, and everything changed. As McGee raced towards home plate, trying to score a run with an opposing player on his tail, he slid forward and smacked his chin hard against the plate. “I didn’t really feel it at the time but 10-15 minutes later, I noticed that something was wrong,” he says. “I had nausea and dizziness and was diagnosed with a concussion later that night.”
The incident triggered an existential crisis, he says, noting that – up to that point – it didn’t even occur to him to have a back-up to his plan o...