Aaron Judge won’t deliver a Hollywood-type speech for the New York Yankees or Team USA, but he doesn’t need to.

The date is June 21, 1997. The Boston Bruins are on the clock at the NHL Draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holding the first-overall pick with the San Jose Sharks scheduled to pick right behind them.

"And the message he sent to a 22-year-old child of a single mother, with a funny name — an outsider — was that maybe there ...