Drake surfs, snowboards, works on his old '61 Corvette and '57 T-Bird and generally spends all his free time with his wife Victoria and their four children: Rachael, Ben, Whitney and Alexandra, at their beach home in Malibu.
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He lived his dream of being a professional baseball player for his favorite team, if just in the Minor Leagues. When he became an actor, his middle name, Drake, became his moniker.
But the memories of his baseball career still resonate, and he credits his lessons learned on the field for his later success off of it. You have to focus, and be able to block out things when it is most important. You have to meet the challenge of it all. It's the preparation before the game. When you walk out on the set, you've got to have your game face on. It's all an extension of baseball. At that time, baseball players were not drafted out of four-year schools, and Broward was situated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Spring Training home of his beloved Yankees.
Then on New Year's Day, they gave us the option of playing baseball or going to the beach. More than half went to the beach. That's when the scouts came. Harry Hayes, a scout for the St.
Louis Cardinals, showed some interest, and Hogestyn was taken in the second round, 35th overall by the Cardinals. This is what you wanted to do," he said of receiving the dream Draft call.
The interest was great, but the money wasn't. Dick McComb, his coach on a semi-pro team in Indiana, encouraged him to play out his junior college season as a Spring Training of sorts before jumping up to the Cardinals. But that didn't play out right. In the very first game of the season, Hogestyn suffered a bad right knee injury in a collision at home plate.
He underwent a then-fledgling arthroscopic surgery procedure that sidelined him for two months. He returned enough to make a regional All-Star team, but he wasn't percent. After representing the United States in South America, he moved on to the University of South Florida, then an independent school that still managed to boast an impressive array of national talent. It also was located in the same city as Yankees owner George Steinbrenner's business interests.
At the time Hogestyn's major was pre-dental, but he also had a bead on medical school. Coached by famed former University of Maine skipper Jack Butterfield, Hogestyn remembers the Bulls as a renegade team. Also aboard was Chris Welsh, the longtime color commentator for the Cincinnati Reds. We were a ragtag group of players. And here he comes in his matching Arizona State gear with his shirt, shorts, shoes, wrist bands and swoosh shoes long before anyone ever heard of Nike.
Everyone looked at him like he was crazy. He didn't care. We almost came up with our own language. If there was a pretty girl, he could say what he wanted to without embarrassing himself or her. All four of them eventually were drafted by the Yankees -- Hogestyn in the final round, th overall -- and Steinbrenner even spoke at the school's awards ceremony -- although he cut out early to catch a Yankees-Red Sox game.
Hogestyn lost his childhood sweetheart, Victoria, in the process, and wound up in Oneonta, New York. John Black may have lost his memory, but the first day as a pro player never faded for his portrayer.
My heart is racing and there's a small breeze and the sun is burning your eyelids. And I'm just laughing in the outfield," he said. I remember it so clearly as if it just happened.
And that was a really huge moment. I think the Yankees do it that way on purpose. It gives you a sense of honor, duty and responsibility. It's about taking the talent and matching it up with something more.
Can your mental fortitude withstand what it takes to play for that team? And the Yankees were more invested in top prospect Pat Tabler than final pick Hogestyn.
So much so that when the organization decided to convert Tabler to the hot corner, they even tried to use Hogestyn's equipment to do so.
Cue analyst Welsh: "The manager asked Hogey for his glove. Hogey said, 'This is my tool, no one uses my tool but me. After several episodic appearances, Hogestyn found his acting home on Days of Our Lives where he took over the role of Roman Brady from Wayne Northrop. While making his home on the small screen on DAYS since , Hogestyn also made California his home and raised a family.
He married childhood sweetheart, Victoria, soon after landing in Salem, and they have four now-grown children, Ben, Whitney, Alexandra, and Rachael. In , the actor had an accident on the DAYS set that led to a head injury as they shot a stunt. This sidelined him for several months, but he returned to the fold with welcome arms and silver hair, showing us his strong longevity as a daytime legend.
Hogestyn dreamed of being a professional baseball player and played on the farm team for the New York Yankees until he was sidelined by an injury in Drake Hogestyn Photos. Actor 5 Credits.
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