Few athletes have lived a story as riveting—and as revealing—as Dave Winfield. Join Dave and The Rev. Mark Thompson at the Museum for an exclusive conversation on Winfield’s new memoir, Touching All the Bases. In it, the Hall of Famer pulls back the curtain on his life in the game.  With honesty and conviction, Winfield recounts the triumphs, controversies, and showdowns that shaped not only his career but also the culture and path of baseball itself.

This is not just another baseball memoir—it’s a reckoning with power, loyalty, commitment, and the costs of standing tall when others expect you to bow. Alongside the unforgettable stories of contracts, confrontations, distractions, and championships are moments of generosity, grit, and forgiveness that reveal a nuanced portrait of the man behind the No. 31 jersey.

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About the Speakers

Dave Winfield is a Hall-of-Fame baseball player and World Series champion. He played 22 major league seasons, 17 of them in San Diego and New York. A 12-time All-Star, he was among the first professional athletes to start a charitable foundation. The David M. Winfield Foundation, launched in 1977, provided health care, holiday meals, and educational scholarships to underprivileged families. Dave was also a key figure in the development of one of the strongest and most successful labor unions in the country and world, the Major League Baseball Players Association. A two-sport collegiate athlete, Big Ten champion, and an All-American baseball player, he is the only athlete to ever be drafted by four professional sports leagues: MLB, the NBA, the ABA, and the NFL. Following his major league career, he spent more than a decade as an executive in professional baseball and six years in media with FOX Sports and ESPN. He is an acclaimed speaker and the author of a 1988 autobiography (W.W. Norton & Company) and a 2008 book about how to revitalize baseball (Scribner). He’s been married for more than 30 years, has three children, and lives in Los Angeles.

 

The Rev. Mark Thompson is both a lifelong civil rights activist and a lifelong Yankee fan. Rev. Thompson played college baseball as a freshman walk-on at Georgetown University before he was recruited by Coach John Thompson to be student manager for the Georgetown Men’s Basketball Team. Dave Winfield was a mentor to Rev. Thompson’s son, Menra, throughout his high school and college baseball career. Both Rev. Thompson and his son, a sports journalist himself, broadcast the opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum.

Rev. Thompson is also the host of the acclaimed podcast, Make It Plain, a PhD Student in the field of Public Theology and a Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers Inductee. In 2012, he published A Psalm of Baseball, likening the 23rd Psalm to his beloved pastime.