Guilford Native - Ex-MLB Player - To Throw Out First Pitch At Chicago Cubs Game

By Jack Kramer

Correspondent

GUILFORD, CT - On July 9th, 2005, no one suspected the triumph of Guilford-native Adam Greenberg's first major-league plate appearance with the Chicago Cubs would be obliterated by an errant 92 mile-an-hour first-pitch fastball that hit him in the head.

Baseball wise, Greenberg, a 1999 graduate of Guilford High School, was never the same again. His road to recovery was littered with concussions, depression and self doubt.

Seven years after being hit by that fastball that altered his life path, Greenberg, in storybook fashion, got his one official major league at bat with the Miami Marlins.

He never played in another big league game after his plate appearance (a strike out) against the New York Mets.

But Greenberg found a new life path to take becoming a successful businessman, motivational speaker and now author.

On Wednesday, July 19th at 7 p.m. Greenberg will be back in his hometown, speaking about his new book, GET UP, in a talk at the Guilford Library.

In 2010, Greenberg founded the health and wellness company Lurong Living, where he enjoys empowering others to gain control of their health through a line of dietary supplements and nationwide health challenges.

The program is free and open to all. To register, call 203-453-8282 or stop by the library’s reference desk to sign up.

By the way, this Friday (July 7th), Greenberg is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field – exactly 12 days to the day he was first called up to the big leagues by the Cubs.