(Photo: Photo courtesy of Derek Kerr)
Ann Arbor — Jimmy Kerr was always going to attend Michigan to study engineering. That was a given when he was growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, always wearing maize and blue when he wasn't in his school uniform.
Like his father, Derek, and grandfather, John, Jimmy Kerr also was a baseball player. When Michigan baseball coach Erik Bakich first laid eyes on Kerr, he saw a skinny kid. But Bakich was aware of Kerr’s Michigan lineage.
John Kerr, was a pitcher on the 1962 national championship team, the last at Michigan to win a World Series, and Derek, was a backup catcher on the 1984 team, the last to reach a World Series for the Wolverines.