Miami Hurricanes outfielder Michael Burns noticed the tiny lump on his upper left thigh while taking a shower in October 2015.
He ignored it as it grew and made his left quadriceps almost cartoon-like, figuring it was a fluid sac that he hould eventually get drained.
Besides, it was painless and didn’t prevent him from hitting .363 in his first 30 games of the 2016 season at Cisco College in Texas.
His mother didn’t ignore it.
One night late last March, Burns’ junior college roommate, pitcher Jeb Bargfeldt, joined Burns and his visiting family from Colorado for dinner at a local Tex-Mex joint.