ABOUT
If there’s ever a person who epitomizes perseverance, it’s Adam Greenberg, famous for the one pitch that changed his life forever. A 92 mile-an-hour first-pitch fastball to the back of the head on his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs gave Adam the record for being one of only two players in history to have an official at-bat without ever taking the field. After seven years of continued hustle to get back, Adam signed a one-day contract with the Miami Marlins in 2012. He was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.
Adam is an All-State native of Connecticut and an All-American standout at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2010, he founded the health and wellness company Lurong Living, where he enjoys empowering others to gain control of their health through a line of dietary supplements and nationwide health challenges. As a proven dynamic leader, he also enjoys traveling the country sharing his story and keys to perseverance.
“On July 9, 2005, I stepped into the batter’s box for my first major-league plate appearance with the Chicago Cubs. That moment was the culmination of my life’s work and my proudest achievement up to that point. No one suspected the triumph of that moment would be obliterated by a 92 mile-an-hour first-pitch fastball striking me just under my helmet on the back of my head. The first pitch of my major-league career threatened not only the future of my ability to play baseball, but my life itself.”
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“I didn’t know it at the time, but that pitch was a gift. What was both the greatest and worst split-second of my life sent me into an odyssey of struggle, pain, and confusion which forged me slowly into the man I am today. What I thought was the destroyer of my dream was actually the birth of a greater one. It took me years to understand it, but it was worth every moment. I would take none of it back.”
