Yankees Star and Musician Bernie Williams Recalls Meeting Bruce Springsteen Exclusive

Bernie Williams. Credit : Jim McIsaac/Getty; Adam Unger NEED TO KNOW Former New York Yankees star Bernie Williams has always loved music The baseball player retired in 2006 after a 16-year career in the MLB and has pursued music as a second act ever since Williams, 57, is set to perform at Carnegie Hall in January 2026 Bernie Williams played with the New York Yankees for all 16 years of his Major League Baseball career. At the same time he was cementing himself as an All-Star centerfielder, he was also honing another set of skills in the arts. The former athlete, 57, talks with PEOPLE about his lifelong love for music and how it’s taken him from Yankee Stadium to Carnegie Hall. “I started playing guitar around the same time I started playing baseball. I was around 8 years old,” he says, noting that his mom was “an educator in the public education system in Puerto Rico,” while his father was a retired merchant mariner. “They all established some roots in Puerto Rico, where I grew up, and started taking guitar lessons, informally, when I was 7 or 8 years old. And took that for a year. That sparked my
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