It was not always easy being Kobe. Kobe confirmed this himself. Some crowd would start chanting his name and he'd wonder - who were they really chanting for?
"You better have some type of game," Kobe Gantz said. "You don't want to get embarrassed."
Finishing his junior year at Lancaster's McCaskey High School, Gantz - a legit ballplayer, getting Division I interest - is among the older guys in a specific cohort, named for Kobe Bryant.
"My dad named me after Kobe Bryant, but my mom just liked the name, so I guess she went along with it," Gantz said.