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The Glue Guys of Baseball: @CespedesFamilyBBQ
GMP Sports brings you our exclusive conversation with Jake Mintz of @CespedesFamilyBBQ, one of the team of two recent college grads behind one of baseball’s most beloved Twitter accounts
With the current state of baseball and the world — and just because we just think it’s a neat idea — we are doing a series on “the glue guys” of the baseball world, people who aren’t players or a part of teams but who are important connectors and folks who amplify the joy of baseball for others.
Next up, is @CespedesFamlyBBQ (AKA, the baseball content juggernaut founded by high school buddies, Jacob Mintz and Jordan Shusterman). Jake was good enough to sit down with us to talk about their site and baseball, below!
Good Men Project Sports:
When did you start doing what it is you do (i.e., @CespedesFamilyBBQ) and why?
CespedesFamilyBBQ:
Here’s the basic backstory:
Jordan and I started Céspedes Family Barbecue back in high school during our senior year. It was December of 2012. We’d been friends for a while and were just constantly talking to one another about the game…
