At a very young age, Elwood Bush recognized that his son Bryce was athletically gifted.
“At three years old, I knew he was special,” Elwood says. “I used to throw him Wiffle balls and he would barrel them up.” The elder Bush jokes that the neighbors would see young Bryce hitting these Wiffle balls and they would stop and remark, “Who is that little guy? We better get his autograph now.”
When he was seven years old, Bryce had to be taken out of coach-pitch little league and moved up to play against the 10-year olds. Why?