David Peralta’s quest to return to the majors with the Chicago Cubs is the latest chapter in an incredible journey

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David Peralta’s quest to return to the majors with the Chicago Cubs is the latest chapter in an incredible journey

David Peralta needed gas money. The circumstances surrounding his dilemma were not what Peralta envisioned when he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals as a 17-year-old amateur free agent out of Venezuela. Peralta, then a pitcher, endured two surgeries to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder. After the second procedure caused him to miss the entire 2008 season, the Cardinals released him in May 2009 at age 21. He would go three years between…