If it wasn’t for Kyle Farmer, the Twins projected shortstop for 2023 until they signed Carlos Correa, today’s Random D-Back John Hester would be the most famous baseball player ever who attended Marist School in Atlanta, a private catholic high school. A two-way player, Hester was also a pretty good linebacker, he dominated Georgia high school baseball. In his final 2002 year at Marist he hit .400 with 8 homers and 50 RBI and was selected to the All-State baseball team.
“I started catching when I was nine years old. I used to play first base, but one day the catcher of my team did not show up.