Jimerson's bid to make
Mariners only the latest challenge in his life
Mar/24/08 02:50 AM Filed in:
Charlton
Jimmerson
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) -- It is not surprising that
Charlton Jimerson is trying to run his way onto the
Mariners.
Jimerson has been ignoring stop signs his entire life
"It's something I've proven to be able to do -- at all
levels, "the 28-year-old said of his attempt to make
his first major league team out of spring training, 12
months after he was unemployed and calling teams using
a directory from a magazine.
His mother abandoned him for crack cocaine. His father
left before that. His sister, Lanette, got a court
order to raise him and his brother in and around
Oakland, Calif., when she was 19.
Jimerson applied to the University of Miami on academic
merit after he saw a "commercial, a real good
commercial" about the school, its beach and its sun.
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