{"id":4134,"date":"2004-04-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/15\/2004-04-15-american-major-league-baseball-players-into-yoga\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-15-american-major-league-baseball-players-into-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/15\/2004-04-15-american-major-league-baseball-players-into-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"American Major League Baseball Players Into Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/mlb\/news\/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040315&#038;content_id=650905&#038;vkey=spt2004news&#038;fext=.jsp\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, March 15, 2004: It is unlikely that the Hindu masters who brought yoga to the Western world envisioned members of the L.A. Dodgers major league baseball team as their disciples. But Dave Roberts is a believer. Teammates that also practice the Eastern form of body and mind exercise include Shawn Green, Paul Lo Duca and Darren Dreifort. Yoga has become a component in the training regimen of some players and a key element in Roberts&#8217; attempt to silence critics who have long insisted he can&#8217;t play major league baseball every day. The critics turned out to be right last year when the center fielder and leadoff hitter tried to play with a pulled hamstring muscle in what became &#8220;the most frustrating season&#8221; of his career. So&#8211;influenced by Green&#8211;Roberts turned to something more mystical than mainstream. Roberts shared a private yoga instructor with Green during the winter. &#8220;I always said I would never do something like that, but you have to go with what works,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;The idea behind it makes sense. Shawn was talking to me about it and the more I heard, the more I wanted to try. It takes a lot of focus and concentration. The benefits definitely have shown up already. My body is looser, more flexible. When I warm up, I&#8217;m not as tight. It&#8217;s all part of making sure I will be on the field.&#8221; Green said he has been into yoga for five years. &#8220;It strengthens and lengthens the muscles,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s helped me, especially avoiding pulled muscles. Dave now knows he&#8217;s susceptible to leg issues and that&#8217;s his game. So it makes sense. And it&#8217;s becoming more mainstream all around.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceVERO BEACH, FLORIDA, March 15, 2004: It is unlikely that the Hindu masters who brought yoga to the Western world,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}