By Fernando Ballesteros

Aaron Judge was born on April 26, 1992, the same day the Yankees won 3-1 against the Baltimore Orioles. However, hours later, the newborn lost both his mother and father.

His mother didn’t want anything to do with him and abandoned him in a hospital in Linden, California. That’s where Patty and Wayne Judge came to rescue him.

No one knew the fate that awaited the adopted little boy, who only found out at the age of 10 that Patty and Wayne were not his biological parents.

Judge with Patty, who adopted him the day he was abandoned at birth.

“They just told me I was adopted. I was like, ‘OK, that’s fine with me. You’re still my mom, the only mom I know. You’re still my dad, the only dad I know,'” revealed Judge, the Yankees’ Captain and current home run leader in Major League Baseball (24).

Thirty-two years after his birth in 1992—a season in which the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in six games against the Atlanta Braves—Judge clarifies that he has no interest in meeting his biological parents and is fully satisfied with those who raised him.

Patty and Wayne supported him in every way when he decided to dedicate himself to baseball from a very young age, never imagining that the little boy had been born with a star that his biological parents tried to extinguish:

– American League Rookie of the Year (2017)

– American League MVP (2022)

– Five-time All-Star

– Three Silver Slugger Awards

– One Hank Aaron Award

– American League home run record (62 in 2022)