Blue Jays prospect Daniel Norris gets mistaken for a homeless man
Toronto Blue Jays top prospect Daniel Norris has become famous this offseason for being something of a baseball hippie — he lived in his van during a slow trek to spring training, stopping and surfing along the way, cooking his food and brewing his coffee at rest stops.
Van life, he calls it, as he turned the drive from his home in Johnson City, Tenn., to Dunedin, Fla., where the Blue Jays train, into a several-week jaunt. Norris and his van — a 1978 Volkswagen — arrived at Blue Jays spring training camp earlier this week, but that wasn’t the end of his adventures.
The 21-year-old lefty, the No. 18 overall prospect on Baseball America’s Top 100 list, says he was mistaken for a homeless man by a stranger who spotted him sleeping in his van. He was outside of a Whole Foods in Florida after his day at Blue Jays camp.
Napping in my van at whole foods. Dude comes up to me with cash saying his brother was homeless for a bit & he’s praying for me………..
