MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Long before the start of the 2018 Middle Tennessee baseball season, a young catcher walked into the annual Admiral Baseball Camp at Farragut High School in a small suburb of Knoxville, Tennessee.
He wasn't the biggest or the strongest middle schooler at the camp, though he had some skill behind the plate. What he had that stood out amongst the rest of the players was a strong personality and high character.
Little did the catcher know as he started playing toss and mingling with his fellow players that he was about to form a bond that would ultimately change his young life.