"Every time I go back to Toronto, I always have little butterflies in my stomach because it's a place where my mom grew up, was born and raised, worked in office buildings in downtown Toronto and things like that. So you just feel a little bit closer to her, and I always seem to play pretty well when I go up there. It's not about playing well, it's about, 'Man, this is cool. I'm in a place where my mom was 50, 60 years ago.'"
"But now that you look back at it, one, she has the best seat in the house, obviously up there in heaven. And now, I got to win it in a place she grew up and was born. That's really cool to think about it. Media day, you're talking about it before Game 1 and all that, but then you think about it, and it's really, really special."
Freddie Freeman secured his third career championship and second with the Los Angeles Dodgers by winning the 2025 World Series. He was born and raised in Southern California and maintains close ties to Canada through his parents, leading him to represent Canada twice in the World Baseball Classic to honor them and his late mother. His mother, Rosemary Joy Freeman, was born in Toronto and died of melanoma in 2000. Freeman feels emotional visiting Toronto because it connects him to his mother's past and memories. Winning in Toronto felt especially meaningful with his father, stepmother, and three children present in the stands.
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