Yankee legend Bernie Williams uses music to help patients with rare diseases

Bernie Williams knew that many knew him because he wore pinstripes, hit from both sides of the plate and won the World Series with the New York Yankees. This is his main legacy in baseball games.

But Williams’ love of music, especially guitar, has always been common over the years.

He recalled Fox News numbers, and one day at the Yankee Clubhouse, rock legend Bruce Springsteen walked around. Usually, Yankees are the ones asked to sign, but this time, Springsteen is the main attraction he walks through the club.

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Williams doesn’t want to sign on bats or baseball, though. That’s too simple.

“So, I had this fender TV announcer in my locker and I said to him, ‘Hey, can you sign it? I’m not going to let you sign the ball or the bat. I think it’s really cool.’ “So, he signed the guitar and said ‘To Bernie, if you’re tired of baseball…'”

Springsteen is the wizard on the stage and may foresee the future sweet Williams entering the music. It was his musical career, the backball, that was used to respect the legacy of his late father while helping others along the way.

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This Friday marks a rare disease day, and Williams talks with Fox News Digital Digital about his collaboration with lung health, a program designed to support patients and loved ones who deal with interstitial lung disease (ILD).

ILD can cause irreversible scars in the lungs, which can make it difficult to breathe – so difficult that many patients need to carry oxygen tanks. The disease affects about 50,000 Americans each year and is incurable.

Bernabé Williams Figueroa Sr. died in 2001 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an IDL.

Bernabé Williams Figueroa Sr. died in 2001 and his son Bernie Williams played for the New York Yankees. (Adjust lung health)

“He was the one who taught me how to play baseball,” Williams recalls. “He was the one who taught me how to play music with guitar and all of this. All of these things were brought together in a complete way with this program where I could really give back to the community, remember his legacy, and do my mind well for me, think about me, and be able to feel good when I help others through these really challenging times.”

The program explores how music and breathing can help people cope with the physical and psychological aspects of illness and enables Williams to connect with patients and caregivers through his music.

“Music has always been a really important part of my life, and as I get older, I can see how powerful life is in every aspect of life,” he said. “You can use it for healing. If you are excited, it can get you through it. You can use it for exercise. The power of music is so huge that it seems like a small introduction to me and trying to make a part of music the power of music that can handle these things through these things and when you pass by these dads, you can get along with it.

Through the program’s website, Williams has been nominated for the Latin Grammy Award during his music career, and he loves the different ways patients and caregivers can use music and breathing exercises to improve their daily lives.

“Breath is [singing]use your voice as an instrument,” he explains. “The application of people who really value every breath and everything that happens in their life is also very important. So with this information you can do these exercises to really improve the quality of life. ”

Former New York Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams at Yankees Stadium. (Today’s Wendell Cruz-Usa movement)

Williams said the initiative was “very healing” for him because it allowed him to remember those great times with his father through another passion in his life outside of baseball.

In fact, Williams will play some tunes with his band on March 27th – the opening day of Major League Baseball (MLB) with his band at the iconic Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey and have fireside chats with fans, including the initiative.

The iconic Jersey Coast site is one that started in Springsteen. It’s the beginning of the path to rock greatness, and ultimately a professional baseball player eager to share his music with the world.

They will connect that route again.

“Twenty years later, I’m having those Joe Torre dinners at home with him on stage. [Springsteen] It was a guest performer who brought me to the stage, and we played “Glory Day” with him and his wife. That was a great moment in my young music career. This is one of the things I remember and will never forget. ” Williams said.

Bernie Williams’ love for music has been intertwined with his initiatives and integrated into lung health, which has given his late father tribute to him. (Adjust lung health)

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Williams will never forget the man who taught him how to play guitar.

“As long as I hold my breath, I try to provide information to people and try to educate people about what I’ve been through and what my father has been through.”

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