In his nearly 52 years of living, Detroit native Garrett Street has mastered the art of listening — with his nose. And when his nose picks up the scent of leather baseball gloves and other gear coming from a bulging equipment bag, he knows his life could not be any better.
“It’s a fragrance to it,” explains Street, director and creator of Legends League Baseball, a grassroots spring-to-fall youth sports program that has served more than 5,000 boys and girls locally since 2016.
Street describes giving in to boyish curiosity at his first Little League practice when he unzipped an unattended equipment bag to examine the contents, leading to his first whiff of the “fragrance.