You’re going to want to buckle up for this one, as Meredith Marakovits sits down with Yankees reliever Fernando Cruz for a chat that’s funny, inspirational, sad, sweet and so much more. The splitter magician tells a story of faith and perseverance, of the sacrifices that his family made and his belief that his mother traded her life for his big-league shot. Seriously, this is one special conversation. After you catch your breath, stick around as Yankees Magazine deputy editor Jon Schwartz joins Meredith to look back on the first four weeks of the season, and go through the stories from the April issue of the magazine. Finally, we send it to Brian Richards in the New York Yankees Museum presented by Bank of America, where senior museum curator Brian Richards has a story to tell about Earle Combs.

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