The MLB millionaire who lives in a van down by the Walmart

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Young sports stars: Ugh, they're all egomaniacs who start spending lavishly once they begin raking in that big-league cash, right?

Wrong — at least in the case of one millionaire top Major League Baseball prospect named Daniel Norris

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Norris is 21 years old. The Toronto Blue Jays drafted him picked him in the second round of the 2011 MLB Draft, and gave him a $2 million signing bonus. So he probably lives in some swanky condo while working his way up to bigs right? Wrong again

Norris is spending spring training in Florida living behind a Walmart in a 1978 Volkswagon van he bought for $10,000. In an excellent profile recently, ESPN The Magazine anointed him "the most interesting man in baseball." Read more...

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