BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – “On the finish of the day, youngsters need your autograph. They don’t care for those who win or lose. They simply look as much as you a lot. They love you they usually wish to be you.” That’s why Texas A&M Baseball third baseman Trevor Werner believes baseball is about extra than simply the sport.
When Werner met 13-year-old Carter Wooden, who was decked out in his Auburn attire, on the Aggies’ Regional Match in Hoover, AL, he had no concept that one dialog would result in a lifelong friendship. However Werner remembers, not too way back, being identical to Wooden.
“I used to be as soon as, as a child, in his footwear. Standing exterior the batting cages, idolizing school baseball gamers,” he mentioned.
Werner and Wooden met only one month after Wooden was recognized with nervousness and melancholy. His mother, Jennifer Wooden, says his prognosis got here from months of being bullied, assaulted, and belittled. She says her son had began to consider what the bullies have been saying to him, however Werner and the opposite Aggie Baseball gamers made him consider in any other case.
Earlier than the Aggies left Alabama to move again to Faculty Station, Wooden gave Werner a letter thanking him for taking the time to speak to him. Werner says he nonetheless has that letter hanging up in his locker. Because the Aggies loaded the bus, Werner stopped to hug Wooden and provides him his batting gloves, considering it could be the final time he’d see him.
Then, Werner had the thought to ask Wooden and his dad to come back to Faculty Station for Tremendous Regionals. The pair made the 12 hour drive from Alabama to Aggieland for what would quickly develop into what Wooden’s mother calls “the journey of a lifetime.”
The 2 stayed on the A&M Resort, ate BBQ and cobbler at Cooper’s, and sat within the stands at Blue Bell Park subsequent to Werner’s dad and mom, whereas sporting Werner’s jersey, #28, that was given to Wooden as a present by Werner’s dad and mom earlier than the sport. Wooden even made it up on the massive display screen!
When the Aggies punched their ticket to Omaha, Werner, as soon as once more, knew he wanted who he calls his “good luck” allure, cheering him on from the gang. He and his dad and mom discovered a method to safe tickets for Wooden and his complete household to affix them in Omaha, Nebraska for the Males’s Faculty World Sequence.
As soon as once more, the Woods made the drive. This time, to see Werner and the Aggies play on the massive stage. Wooden says he “can’t put into phrases” what it means to him that Werner requested him to be there and that he sees him as an older brother.
The Aggies historic post-season run ended on Wednesday, June 22 with a 5-1 loss in opposition to Oklahoma, however win or lose, Werner is aware of that Wooden is wanting as much as him.
Wooden’s mother sums it up by saying, “I’ve at all times been instructed God places the correct folks in the correct place on the proper time, and that timing is all the things. That’s precisely what occurred on Could 25, 2022 for an Alabama teen. A stranger from Faculty Station, Texas turned a life lengthy pal.”
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