WASHINGTON -- In September 2011, something changed Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy's perspective. That's when John Coker Jr., Lucroy's former roommate and teammate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, was seriously wounded in an ambush while serving in Afghanistan with the Oklahoma National Guard.
Coker survived, but the incident and its aftermath gave Lucroy a new appreciation for the sacrifices that service members and their families make. He soon began finding ways to give back to them, and four years later, Lucroy was honored for those contributions as he received the 2015 Bob Feller Act of Valor Award in a ceremony on Wednesday night at the U.