On his way....

Grant is 6, and his passion for baseball is really starting to show. He can throw over the plate. He can catch. He can hit 9-out-of-10 pitches. That's because for the past 3-years, he and his brother play every single day.

In Outliers, Malcomb Gladwell said, "ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything." Gladwell never said you needed 10,000 hours to be an expert, you need 10,000 hours to be a phenom. To be so freakishly awesome, to be such a standout among your peers, that sometimes your first name is enough to tell people who you are: Peyton. Tiger. Venus. Kobe. Oprah.

Grant is a little guy and he has many hours needed to get there. But even now, even with his small stature, he has the heart to be head and shoulders above the best performers in his pee-wee league. If he keeps it up, we may get familiar with him on a first name basis.