Edwin Jackson was still in diapers the first time he moved.
He was born in Neu-Ulm, Germany, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Army. But duties change, and by the time Jackson turned 1, his family had moved to Fort Polk, La. At 6, the family moved back to Germany for another two years.
“I explained to them this is my job,” said Edwin Jackson Sr., who served in the Army for 22 years. “It requires me to pack up and leave abruptly. So they was kind of prepared and expected that.”
Those expectations primed the younger Jackson for a nomadic existence in Major League Baseball.