CLEARWATER, Fla. — Hulk Hogan, the biggest star in the history of professional wrestling and a pop culture icon, put on a Phillies jersey Friday morning and felt a bit insecure.
He came to spring training as a guest of bullpen coach Jim Gott and was asked to speak to a group of Phillies pitchers. Hogan has not wrestled full time in more than a decade, and most of the Phillies, the youngest roster in baseball, are too young to remember Hogan’s leveling foes with his trademark leg drop. He once wrestled in front of 90,000 fans but still didn’t know what type of reaction awaited him on a small baseball diamond outside Spectrum Field.