PATRICK MAHOMES II DIDN’T WANT TO BE A quarterback. He wanted to play baseball. Of course he did. Pretty much every kid whose dad is a Major League Baseball player wants to be in the big leagues, too. Think of the sport’s astonishing list of Juniors—Ken Griffey Jr. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., to name but a couple. Barry Bonds is the son of a ballplayer. In all there have been 259 sets of fathers and sons who have played Major League Baseball and countless more who came close.
Growing up, Mahomes seemed to be very much on the baseball path. His dad, Pat Mahomes, spent eleven years in the majors pitching for the Twins, Red Sox, Mets, and three other teams. Young Pa-trick’s earliest, and some of his
