The concrete of Nick Zwack's driveway in Monticello, Minnesota, knew he was there. It felt him pacing up and down anxiously as picks and rounds passed in this week's 2021 Major League Baseball Draft.
"I paced up and down the driveway for two days straight," Zwack laughed.
The 6-foot-3, 230-pound left-handed pitcher, a recent graduate of Xavier University, could finally stop pacing Tuesday.
Zwack heard his grandmother yell from the backyard as his mom and his girlfriend, Sydney Schembri, a women's soccer player at Xavier, saw that he was drafted in the 17th round by the New York Mets.