Ichiro Suzuki arrived to the Marlins as baseball’s oldest player with a trailer of workout machines to stay fit beyond mortal limits. Jaromir Jagr came to the Panthers as hockey’s oldest player with a stash of secrets that involved calling a strength coach late at night and say, “Meet me at the rink.”
Frank Gore, at 35, the NFL’s oldest running back, has no machines or midnight rendezvous to fight time’s narrowing of the hall and dimming of the light.
“I’m just myself,’’ he says.
Dolphins teammate Cameron Wake, at 36, eats plates of salmon, passes on cheeseburgers and hasn’t had a drop of alcohol since his first year in college.