Evolution from player to coach

Evolution from player to coach

It’s his first love. Baseball. The love that sprouted at his community church in Hillsboro, Ore., with a memory of him, his dad and brother all playing the sport together, throwing the ball around. Whiff, the ball would fly — towards dad of course. “(My dad) would just throw me and my brother whiffle balls and we’d just whack them, and me and my brother used to just try to hit my dad in the head with the whiffle ball. That’s all we’d do,” Jake H…