Baseball 2023: Alex the Great (Rabbit) takes his furry bows at the ballpark
In a game where much depends on fate – a ball that takes an unlucky bounce, a sudden gust that sends a sure home run just foul, a hard hit ball that careens off the corner of a base and miraculously ends up in the first baseman’s glove – is it any wonder that ball players put a lot of stock in good luck charms?
Many of those victories, says Alex’s owner, Josh Row, were come-from-behind wins, including Alex’s first game, where the Giants were down two runs, before the rabbit magic kicked in, and they won by a single run. Alex didn’t intend to become a rally rabbit and social media darling. When Row, who has had rabbits for the last 16 years and does a lot of work with rescued rabbits, first met Alex, he and his fiancee, Kei Kato, thought Alex’s calmness and friendliness would make him a great therapy animal.
In addition to his baseball work, Alex is part of San Francisco International Airport’s “Wag Brigade,” an assortment of animals that stroll the airport, greeting fliers and working to keep tensions and anxiety as low as they can. The brigade includes dogs, as well as Alex and a pig. Alex also visits nursing homes and hospice care.
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