In below-freezing temperatures, Lyle Miller-Green embraced his beginnings.
During high school baseball practices, vomit dripped down his bare chest as he led his team in sprints and pull-ups.
In tense situations, Miller-Green, an OSU outfielder, could make his teammates laugh.
His coaches and teammates at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, remember it all. Especially coach John Thomas.
“He took his shirt off and yelled that he was a Russian polar bear,” Thomas said.
Miller-Green lived in Russia. For a year.
Born Oleg Sergevich Kornev, an adoption at the age of one brought Kornev from his Siberian orphanage to Burke, a southern suburb of Washington D.