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“He’s still a good guy,” Hendricks says, laughing.
In the meantime, Hendricks will continue to represent the Lone Star state as Texas’ only player on the Crimson roster. He’s already got teammates listening to country music in the locker room before games and says he gets a hard time “about?...
One of those alumni, Florida Marlin and World Series MVP Josh Beckett, played with Hendricks from 1998-1999. The two still talk on the phone “from time to time” and caught up during 2003 Marlins Spring Training in Jupiter, Fla.
As Hendricks watches his teammate thrive in the Majors, he can’t help but wonder how far he can make it—though, as he says, not many had the talent the hard-throwing Beckett, who threw 96 mph as a senior, had as a teenager.
Hendricks cherishes his experience playing with Beckett—marked by the appearance of TV crews and as many as 40 scouts at any game—pondering, “hopefully [it’s] not once in a lifetime. Hopefully I’ll be up there some...