MIAMI
Six-year-old Patrick Mahomes was at practice early on in his debut T-ball season when his coach tapped a lazy grounder into the hole at short.
“Patrick always loved shortstops,” Pat Mahomes Sr. said. “He fielded the ball and threw it across to first base, and I guess the first baseman misjudged the speed of the ball.”
And?
“The ball hit the kid dead square between the eyes and broke his glasses,” Pat Sr. said. “That’s when I first said, ‘Well, Patrick’s a little different than most of the other kids his age.’ ”
Yessir, he was.