Anthony Vincent Rizzo is an American professional baseball player, currently plying his trade as a first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). His previous teams in the MLB are the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs.
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Anthony was born on August 8, 1989 to parents Laurie Rizzo and John Rizzo.
Meet Laurie Rizzo And John Rizzo
In 2017, John and Laurie Rizzo were honored in Williamsport as the Little League Parents of the Year.
Long before Anthony became a World Series champion, his mom and dad juggled career and parenting duties to help coach his Parkland (Fla.) Little League teams.
Anthony’s dad John Rizzo said;
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“We’re nobodies. We know we’re just representatives of all the parents of Little League teams.”
“We’re lucky enough to have a kid in the pros. Otherwise, we’re nobody special.”
John Rizzo insisted that having fun was priority No. 1 in the Rizzo household.
“I wanted the boys to know if we won, we had ice cream,” Rizzo said of raising both Anthony and his brother John Jr. “If you went 0-for-5 and we lost, we’d still have ice cream.
“Anthony is still eating ice cream before and after games now. A lot of it.”
Anthony’s mom, Laurie, also spent plenty of time at the youth ballfields.
“With all the work of being a mom, it was great to spend time with the kids at the field,” she said. “It was cute to watch them when they were small.”
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