Brandon Johnson used to love to run the bases,
He wasn’t wild about baseball, mind you, but this wasn’t Little League or t-ball at the local park.
This was his childhood.
As the son of a big leaguer, some of Johnson’s earliest memories are the countless summer days spent around ballparks. The options, though they probably seem limitless to a youngster, really aren’t all that extensive.
You can bother Preston Wilson or Todd Helton. You spend games either with mom or at the club’s childcare services. You run the bases.
“I got to spend a lot of time in the clubhouse and that was really cool,” Johnson, the second-year Broncos wide receiver, told The Denver Post recently.