Jupiter Resident And Former Baseball Star Mike Schmidt Hits A Different Type of Home Run After Beating Stage 3 Melanoma
Published by Gulfstream Media Group, Featured in Jupiter Magazine, Jul 2016
It was all fun and games for Hall of Fame baseball player Mike Schmidt until he was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma at age 63.
Hall of Fame baseball player Mike Schmidt misses the locker room camaraderie. He misses the post-game review, the repartee exchanged around the batting cages, and the occasional beers shared among his teammates. Even more, he misses the challenges he faced every day on the field.
But what he doesn’t miss, at least not anymore, are the countless hours of baking in the sun.
“I spent my whole life just ignoring the idea of sunscreen,” Schmidt, 66, says. “I would have put on Coppertone oil or something to help me get a tan … but never anything that would have kept me from getting one.”
Sandra Benavides Weichel 