The Tigers’ recent call-up haunts the author’s nightmares, as they come from the lonely Texas Panhandle, where Jake Rogers grew up. The story is cool because not many people leave, and Amarillo, a larger town with a population of 200,000, is not very close to anything else.
In West Texas, baseball is also a popular sport, even despite the challenges of dust storms and 30 mph winds. Jake Rogers, a potential future Tigers catcher, was not the expected star from a young age. The author, one year older than Rogers, first became interested in him during a summer league game before his junior year.
