Doug Miller wasn’t coaching baseball at Lincoln Southeast at the time, but he still went and watched some of the games. Alex Gordon was one of those must-see high school players, and Miller had also coached Gordon in football.
“There are just certain kids where you watch them play, and when they hit the ball it sounds different,” Miller said. “There is just an amazing amount of bat speed, and so on. When he hit it solid it was like, ‘Wow.’ You didn’t know if he was destined to be a major league player, but you thought, ‘Wow, that’s a little different.