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Garciaparra, a two-time American League batting champion, proposed to Hamm, the top scorer in the history of the U.S. women's national team, during the Thanksgiving holiday, the Boston Herald reported Friday. The 29-year-old Garciaparra proposed to the 30-year-old Hamm by bending down on one knee, the newspaper reported. "You know I'm a traditional, old-fashioned guy so I think you can assume that happened. It was a private moment between me and the person I love. I don't really want to share it," Garciaparra told the newspaper. The two met at charity event in 1998 and started dating last Thanksgiving, shortly after Hamm divorced her husband of six years, Marine helicopter pilot Christian Corey. Mia is widely recognized as the world's best all-around women's soccer player. She has won numerous awards including All American and ACC Player of the Year, U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year (94 & 95), Gold Medal winner with the 1996 Olympic team and winner of ESPN's "Espy" award for Female Athlete of the Year in 1998 to name a few. Mia also started her own foundation, the Mia Hamm Foundation which raises funds and awareness for bone marrow disease research.
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December
11, 2002 -- Boston Red Sox shortstop
Nomar Garciaparra and soccer star Mia Hamm are planning to get
married sometime in the next two years.
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