BATON ROUGE, LA. – Malcolm Brown was ready to give up college baseball when he walked into Little Rock head coach Chris Curry's office in the spring.
Brown, a junior from Texarkana, Texas, told Curry he needed to get a job and support his family.
Curry asked him to sit down and talk about it. Curry quizzed him about where he would work and Brown didn't have a good answer. He told Curry he had a little over a year before he earned his degree. Brown told Curry that no members of his family had college degrees.