KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- LaTroy Hawkins recently recalled a time in 2008, when he was pitching for the Houston Astros, that President George W. Bush visited the clubhouse before a game.
Hawkins, a longtime major leaguer and the godfather of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, remembers looking over at one point to see a 12-year old Mahomes chatting up the president.
"You should have seen the way he handled himself with the president of the United States," Hawkins said. "He wasn't in awe of who he was. He was just having a conversation with the president, like he was old enough to vote or it was something that happened every day.