Brown is an easy guy to root for:
- Age 9- Mom diagnosed with cancer, beats it but marriage doesn’t survive.
- Age 13 - Mom’s cancer had returned and she passes away.
- Placed under guardianship of his step dad then moves in with little league coach and good friend.
- Within two years, his former coach is killed in a car wreck and his friend dies after a seizure.
- At 16, a summer baseball coach adopted him. They find out he hadn’t been to a dentist in years and could only read at 3rd grade level (diagnosed dyxleia).
- But he has a 95 MPH Fastball. Tim Corbin (Vandy Coach) comes to visit to watch a bullpen. 1st pitch was 93 and then velo dropped big time - blew his UCL.
- Corbin was still willing to take a chance on him.
- Two weeks before enrolling at Vandy, finds out GF is pregnant.
- You have to read the rest of the article for the best part of the story.