The Tim Tebow legend continues to grow.
In the latest episode of As The Benevolent World of Tebow Turns, the former University of Florida and NFL quarterback, now a Mets minor leaguer, stopped during an at-bat to greet an autistic 9-year-old boy who was calling for him from behind the backstop netting. Tebow then stepped back up to the plate and smacked a three-run homer.
“When Seth came back to his seat, he was crying,” the boy’s mother, Ileanna Bosch, told Tampa Bay Times columnist Martin Fennelly, who first reported the story. “And then Tim hit the homer.