Interview with former Major Leaguer Mike Stenhouse

Provided by Active Team Sports
For Active.com

Mike Stenhouse was a Major League outfielder with the Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, and the 1986 Boston Red Sox World Series team. We talked to him about his experience as a pro baseball player as well as his fond memories of being a Little League state champion.

Did you play little league as a kid?

Of course! You are talking to a member of the 1970 Rhode Island state champions Edward South Elmwood. Of course we went to the northeast regional and we got killed by a team from New Jersey. (Whose first basemen later played with me at Harvard.) But all in all I loved my Little League experience.

What was it like playing in the Northeast Regional?

It's a lot different than it is today. Today they have fabulous regional centers. We played in some town in upstate New York, I cant remember which. I can't think of the town. It was not a nice place. (Laughs)

But it was a thrill to see the other teams from around the northeast and meet the players. Somewhere I have a radio broadcast of it in a box. I hit a three-run home run in that game.

Do you think the Sox have enough to pass the Yankees for the AL East?

Sure they have enough. I didn't like the fact they lost catcher Jason Varitek and the Yankees added some very good players. But sure they have enough because they have better pitching than the Yankees.