From the book Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback.
. Copyright © 2023 by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd. Published by Dutton. All rights reserved.scouts descended on East Texas to see a late bloomer with a golden arm. They passed a sign on the way to their destination. “Welcome to Lindale, Good Country Livin’.”Pat Mahomes lived with his parents just inside the Lindale city limits.
When he wasn’t working for an oil company, Johnny played on a semipro baseball club and taught Pat the game at an early age. The expectation, set by Pat’s father, his mother, and his uncle, was to stand out—and not just at baseball. At nearly everything, Pat drew inspiration from Cindy. When he was seven, she had been paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident, but gradually regained some of the movement she had lost and finished a psychology degree. To Pat, everything else seemed easy.
Pat Mahomes had made it: Over the next fifteen years he played for the Twins, the Boston Red Sox, the New York Mets, the Texas Rangers, the Chicago Cubs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. East Texas remained a part of him. He kissed the ground when he came home from an early stint in the minors. After his first major- league victory, in 1992, he mailed the lineup card and game ball back to his parents.
Pat spent his last season in the majors in 2003, then embarked on a long stint as a journeyman minor leaguer. Patrick settled in with his mother in East Texas. The parents split while Patrick was in elementary school, and Randi Martin raised Patrick and younger brother, Jackson, as a single mother, taking extra shifts and working weekends as an event planner at Hollytree Country Club to support their athletic pursuits.
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