{"id":1089,"date":"2021-05-18T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:53:28","slug":"cleveland-pitcher-allen-goes-to-bat-for-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/18\/cleveland-pitcher-allen-goes-to-bat-for-his-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Pitcher Allen Goes to Bat for His Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cleveland pitching prospect Logan Allen doesn\u2019t have any obvious tattoos on his pitching arm. But his right arm is heavily decorated, and one of those tattoos stands out from the rest. Just under the sleeve of his jersey is a question, spelled out in big black letters: What handicap?<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s older brother Philip has a condition that\u2019s comparable to more severe forms of cerebral palsy. And in an interview with The Athletic\u2019s Zack Meisel, Allen opened up<\/a><\/strong> about their relationship. About how the two were close all through childhood. About how Philip loved going to Logan\u2019s little league games. And about how Logan chose a high school baseball academy that was (relatively) close to home, making frequent flights back to see his brother.<\/p>\n

Logan also talks about what Philip had to endure: the stares, the pointing, the rude comments. \u201cI would never wish for someone to feel or have to understand what we, as a family, went through,\u201d he told The Athletic. \u201cBut if you did have to go through what we went through, it would make you a better person. It made me and my family closer and better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Logan, \u2018What handicap?\u2019 is more than just a tattoo. He plans to turn it into a foundation that supports people like his brother. Prior to the season he sold T-shirts with the phrase, and donated the proceeds to Miracle League.<\/a><\/strong> \u201cI have a platform and the ability to make people understand that it\u2019s something I\u2019m passionate about. This is my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Logan navigates the ups and downs of baseball (he\u2019s currently pitching with Cleveland\u2019s AAA affiliate), his relationship with Philip has never wavered. He calls his older brother after every game he pitches in. \u201cIt just reminds you what you\u2019re doing it for,\u201d he told The Athletic. \u201cPhilip was what kept me grounded and what got me to where I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Cleveland pitching prospect Logan Allen doesn\u2019t have any obvious tattoos on his pitching arm. But his right arm is heavily decorated, and one of those tattoos stands out from the rest. Just under the sleeve of his jersey is a question, spelled out in big black letters: What handicap? Allen\u2019s older brother Philip has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}