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Watch: The 12-year-old who became Georgia’s star quarterback

Jake Fromm led Warner Robins to the Little League World Series in 2011. Fromm was 12 at the time. Fromm hit 3 homers and drove in 8 runs in four games. Fromm also stood out on as a pitcher. He struck out 11 of the 18 batters he faced. Warner Robins fell a win short of reaching the U.S. Championship Game. Fromm also hit 4 homers in a game a year later for East Cobb. Fromm also played baseball at Houston County High School. But Fromm was focusing in on football. “It’s every kid’s dream in the state of
By Mike Luck
Jan 4, 2018

The next time you have a chance to watch a Little League baseball game, take it in and ask yourself, “What will these kids become and achieve later in life?”

There may be a future doctor on the field, or a politician, a great teacher, or maybe Georgia’s next quarterback.

That was the case in 2011 when Jake Fromm was 12 years old and slugging home runs for a Warner Robins team in the Little League World Series.

Now he’s 19 and has led the Bulldogs to a 13-1 record and into the national championship game against Alabama Monday night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Watch the video above to follow Fromm’s journey. See how the baseball player became a football player and find out how close he came to never suiting up for the red and black.

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Mike Luck is an Audience Specialist on the sports team at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has worked at the AJC since 1980.

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