It started when the Ehman family started cleaning out the garage in their north side home last fall. Carter, then 13, noticed they had plenty of baseball equipment that they weren’t using anymore and could use a new home.
There was also gear at his recreational and travel ball teams that could be used elsewhere. So he started collecting the gear with the idea of donating it to someone who could use it.
As the year went on, the idea, and the collection, kept growing.
“I didn’t know if people would be this generous, so I started with them,” Carter, now a freshman at Obama Academy, said Friday.