The Detroit News · Jun 13, 2019
The third Kerr is the charm for Michigan baseball
From left, Derek Kerr, Jimmy Kerr and John Kerr at Michigan's Ray Fisher Stadium. (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.
