Detroit Tigers' Matthew Boyd and his wife Ashley talk about the Kingdom Home event at Topgolf in Auburn Hills on Friday, May 17, 2019. Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press
Let’s go back in time, to a travel baseball tournament in 2010.
You see J.J. Bleday, that kid on the mound, pitching for the Detroit Bees?
The 12-year-old left-hander from Pennsylvania who stays in Tyler Thorington’s basement in Woodhaven for weeks at a time? Just so he can play baseball in Michigan?
You aren’t going to believe what the kid will turn into.
“It’s crazy,” Thorington says.