Word: bat
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Like most Texas boys, Hendricks swung his first bat soon after he said his first word. Little Trey was only two-years-old when he became captivated with his high-school age neighbors playing catch regularly in the yard nearby...
...later, he was on his first organized team, a four-year-old playing with six- and seven-year-old kids. But being the youngest never bothered him. Art was a college baseball umpire at the time, and his son often tagged along to the ballpark. Soon Trey was a bat boy for the University of Houston, sitting in the same dugout as current Brewers pitcher Shane Nance...
...Former Houston Coach] Dr. Bragg Stockton, who just passed away, was probably the biggest influence on my baseball life other than my dad,” Hendricks says. “I always went to all of his camps, so I was his bat boy. He let me come out there whenever I wasn’t playing, and I got to hang around college players...
...He’s very quiet, no doubt about that,” Walsh says. “He’s not a let’s go type of guy, but he does his talking with his bat a little...
Last season, Hendricks’ bat wouldn’t shut up. He batted a team best .372, while also leading the Crimson in RBI (29) and homeruns (6). The same production is expected of him this season...