Former Oriole Nick Markakis waited 12 ½ big league seasons to make an All-Star team, but he insisted Monday that it means much more now than it would have early in his career.
Sitting with his three young sons during an afternoon media session at Nationals Park, he was very much in the moment, and the enjoyment of it, he said, is quadrupled because the boys are all old enough to enjoy it with him.
“I’ll always remember it, but if I was there by myself [back then], I’d only be able to remember it myself,’’ Markakis said.