Michigan head baseball coach Erik Bakich talks about Tommy Henry's performance in Game 1 of the College World Series finals June 24, 2019. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press
OMAHA, Neb. – John Kerr isn’t much of a storyteller. Not really a talker.
So, growing up, his grandson, Jimmy, didn’t hear many stories of Michigan baseball’s fabled 1962 national championship team. But once he arrived in Ann Arbor four years ago as a third-generation U-M player – his father, Derek, played for the 1984 team, the school’s last to advance to the College World Series – the stories started flowing.