When I got to high school, I had the pleasure of going to Lafayette HS in Wildwood, Missouri. If you know anything about David Freese, you know that he also went there, as did another former St. Louis Cardinals’ corner infielder, Luke Voit.
I may have gone to the school 12 years after Freese graduated, but I still had that special connection to him, knowing we were coming from the same place. Freese also has a special place in every Cardinals fans’ heart because of his heroics in the 2011 postseason.
It wasn’t just in 2011 that the hometown kid earned his place in St.