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With Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings in full swing, a new member of the Baseball Hall of Famerecently elected (Jeff Kent), and a fresh blanket of snow covering our front lawn here at Conversations HQ, it seemed a perfect time to talk baseball with Andrew Good, a 9-year professional and 3-year MLB veteran.

A native of Rochester Hills, MI, Andrew helped lead Rochester High School to the 1997 Class A State Championship his junior season and one year later was an eighth round selection of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks. He turned down a baseball scholarship at Arizona State University (then coached by current Milwaukee Brewers' manager, Pat Murphy) to sign with the D'Backs.

During our Conversation, Andrew shares the highs and lows of his journey from schoolboy star to professional baseball player (complete with Tommy John surgery and rehab) and, ultimately, into a classroom as a middle school social studies teacher in his hometown.

• Of Note - During the Conversation, host Doug Hill shares Andrew's numbers against enshrined (or likely to be enshrined) Hall of Famers (Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera) but didn't foresee Kent's election. With Kent included (he was 0-for-2 against Andrew) the totals of that group are 8-for-29 or a .276 batting average.

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