After knocking it out of the park as a musician in the s, the rock star born Marvin Lee Aday in , according to Biography began helping others knock it out of the park, too: as a softball coach.
While he was living in Connecticut, Coach Meat as players called him coached a local girls' softball team in , as Sports Illustrated reports. He coached additional teams throughout the s. In addition to his music career, Meat Loaf also carved out a screen career appearing in over 50 movies and television shows.
In , Meat Loaf collapsed at Wembley Arena in London and was admitted to a hospital where he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White-Syndrome and underwent a cardiac procedure. In , medics rushed to his aid during a concert in Pittsburgh, but he got up and finished the show. The singer said he suffers from asthma and from a medical condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. This spring, Meat Loaf announced a release date for a new album and an extensive tour of Canada, returning to a busy schedule after a string of health scares.
The album will also reunite him with Steinman. Sections U. Science Technology Business U. Before he left, we had a big pizza banquet, where we took this photo. He gave us his address in L. In May this year a publicist asked me if I'd like to interview Meat Loaf about an upcoming movie he was in. I hadn't seen him for a decade and replied that I would love to do the interview, adding that he was my old softball coach.
In the end, the publicist was "unable to accommodate me" after all, "due to his schedule. It was OK. Coach Meat was still the one who'd taught me how to throw the ball straight. Jen Carlson is a Senior Editor at Gothamist. Follow her on Twitter here. The A. By Jen Carlson. Shop at Amazon.
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