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'I just like the challenge' - Auburn center fielder Jonah Todd

AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. - Last summer, while top college baseball players sharpened their skills in leagues from Alaska to Cape Cod, Jonah Todd unloaded trucks and stocked shelves at a Walmart in Birmingham.

Perhaps the unlikeliest star in the SEC, Todd, a walk-on, needed to earn money to pay for his housing at Auburn.

The SEC’s second-leading hitter (.381), Todd starred in baseball and basketball at Oak Grove High School in Bessemer, Ala., accepting a scholarship to pitch at Marion Military Institute, one of two offers he received.

“I wanted to go to a juco somewhere to hope after those two years I could get somewhere better,” Todd said.