Before he was hitting over .300 with various affiliates of the St. Louis Cardinals, infielder Wood Myers was just a kid playing a game that ran in his family. His father played baseball in college, and both he and his brother got started as early as possible.
A love of the game is not the only thing that came out of Myers childhood, however. With a name like Wood, it understandably draws a lot of questions. That is something that John Woodley Myers endures quite a bit of.
“My parents called me that as kind of something different,” Myers said.