Six years later, they’re still talking about how far Garrett Bradbury crushed that homer on a warm April night in Monroe, North Carolina.
Lined up along the railing in the visitor’s dugout on the third-base line, his Charlotte Christian teammates eagerly nabbed a front row seat to the action. When Bradbury, the center the Minnesota Vikings draftet 18th overall last month, was at the plate, special things often occurred when his combination of raw power and bat speed made contact with a baseball.
Few forget how it did that evening at Piedmont High School.