Some Jack Scribner Highlights

Haven't posted anything in a while; need to get back in the swing of it and hopefully will soon. In the meantime, I'm just posting some videos of Jack here so I have access to them in a quick and easy-to-find location.

Jack goes deep against Elk Rapids senior year

Jack's last regular season game of high school. Less than a week later, he would be diagnosed with leukemia. He was already feeling pretty ill and incredibly weak (he is noticeably winded each at bat upon reaching first base), but he went 3 for 3 nonetheless. Here is what I posted on Facebook at the time: 

Of all the (very many) things for which I am proud of Jack, near the top of the list would be his resilience. He started this season in the worst slump of his life, going 1/19. Though he was down, he kept working hard, and from that point on (over the last five weeks), he has had the second highest batting average (.378) and highest on base percentage (.521) on his high school team. Today, in the final regular season game of his career, he capped things off with a 3/3 performance at the plate. Next up: District Playoffs on Saturday!

Little did we know how valuable that resilience would be in the very near future.

Jack comes up big against Linden junior year. He hadn't been playing a ton, but with family visiting from out of town, he got the start at first base this day. With family (and the TV cameras) on hand, Jack did not disappoint!

Varsity fall ball against Davison sophomore year. Davison won the league with their pitchers allowing only NINE runs all season. Three of those came here as Jack got a two-out, bases loaded walk-off triple in Davison's only loss. One of my favorite moments from his baseball career.

Here are two of the other runs Davison allowed that season. That's right, as a sophomore facing varsity players, Jack drove in five of the nine runs they allowed on the season!

First Varsity Hit

Sophomore year; JV walk-off winner over Carman-Ainsworth

12-year old Grand Blanc Little League championship game. Jack on the mound trying to pick up the save. His team (the Cardinals!) was up 19-18 with two outs and the tying run on base...

And some basketball, too...

Senior Night

And going REAL old school...