The fly ball to left field — like it seemed to do so many times at Starkville High’s park — was lost in the sun, leaving the left fielder helpless and the coach with a sense of dread. “You know what’s going through your head as a coach,” Travis Garner said. “‘Oh, no. Here we go.’” But then the center fielder came charging — out of nowhere, Garner said — reached out, made the catch, spun, and crashed into the fence. “He just gives a fist pump,” Garner said. “I said, ‘Yeah, he’s pretty good ain’t he?’” It was moments from afternoons like that in Starkville, Miss., that allowed Garner and others …
