Celebrity Wives and Girlfriends of MLB Players Past and Present: Kate Upton, Hannah Davis and More
usmagazine.comBatter up! Kate Upton, Hannah Davis and JoAnna Garcia Swisher are just a few A-listers who’ve been wooed by Major League Baseball athletes over the years.Garcia was acting for more than a decade before her now-husband, Nick Swisher, was drafted in 2002 by the Oakland Athletics.
Two years later, Swisher made his MLB debut with the Oakland As, playing both outfield and first base.After two trades — Nick moved to the Chicago White Sox and then to the New York Yankees — and six years in the league, the athlete married the Reba alum in 2010. (He later played for the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves before retiring in 2015.)“He was really consistent and he was very willing to prove himself.
He’s like, ‘I don’t want you to think that I’m some stereotypical athlete,’” JoAnna exclusively told Us Weekly in February 2018, recalling how she fell for her husband. “He was very honest about that.
He was like, ‘I’m only going to be dating you and you are the only one and until you believe that I’ll be here reminding you of that.’ And that just really struck me like he’s in it to win it.”The duo, who share two daughters, were set up by a mutual friend. “It certainly wasn’t the first type of profession for a guy that I wanted to date.
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