At 7:15 last Wednesday morning, Termarr Johnson was already up and on the baseball field.
First, it was fielding drills, followed by time in the batting cage, fine-tuning his left-handed swing.
Johnson, who just turned 17, is the star shortstop at Atlanta’s Benjamin Mays High School. He’ll be a senior next year and is one of the top high school baseball players in the country. Last week, he and 39 other top prospects took part in the Breakthrough Series, a joint effort by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to foster diverse talent.
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