EAST NORRITON, Pa. (CBS) — Back in 2013, Domonic Brown lit baseball on fire with 11 home runs in 15 games with the Philadelphia Phillies. That season, Brown made the All-Star team. Seven years later, he’s trying to help kids become stars themselves.
Brown spent five years with the Phillies and was an All-Star in 2013. While he may have hung up his cleats at 32, Brown is far from finished with baseball.
It’s the love of the game that has brought Brown to Athletes Academy in East Norriton.
“I’ve seen how the game is changing kids’ lives so I decided to hang ’em up,” Brown said, “which is crazy for me for a lot of guys look at me and say, ‘You are so young,’ ‘Yes, you are so young, you still look like you can play.