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Bulldogs need to glean reflected glory from trio of young pro sports stars

Whenever Mike Batesole welcomes a recruit and his family on a visit, or answers a call on his cell phone from a New York area code, the name on everyone’s lips is always the same:

Aaron Judge.

“They’re all over it,” Fresno State’s baseball coach said. “That’s the first thing mom and dad and the kid ask about. They want to know which one was Aaron Judge’s locker.”

Batesole, of course, is only too happy to answer all Judge-related queries, whether they come from mom and dad or the New York Post, ESPN Radio or Fox Sports (“Who haven’t I talked to?