Ex-Catcher Mike Piazza Rehearsing For Ballet Role

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Mike Piazza knows that some people think it’s funny for a baseball player to take up ballet, but the former catcher hopes to turn whoever is jeering him now into dance fans when he takes the stage with Miami City Ballet next month.You gotta sometimes have the courage to go out there and do something like this, and I think the overall effect will be positive, Piazza said Tuesday after his costume fitting for the role of a gangster in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue….read more