Hammaker's daughter shakes off former pitcher's warning sign Here is some advice for protective fathers who are not keen on the men their daughters are dating: Take Yan Gomes, who is expected to be behind the plate for the Indians on Friday night when they face Tim Hudson and the Giants at AT&T Park. Gomes met a fellow student in 2008 when he played for the University of Tennessee. The wedding photo looks like any other, with the bride, her parents and groom all smiles, except that one man pitched in the majors for 12 seasons, including eight with the Giants, and the other is three seasons into a thus-far successful baseball career. The story behind this wedding includes a chance meeting on the Tennessee campus and a dad who tried to dissuade his little girl from seeing a ballplayer because he knew how hard the life was and, quite frankly, how scurrilous major-leaguers can be, especially on the road. Even though he lived in a soccer-mad country, he played ball as a tot. Atlee Hammaker helped the coaches there, and Jenna knew one of the players, who introduced her to Gomes when he was a sophomore and she was a freshman. When Atlee sensed that Jenna was not going to take his advice about dating Yan, he did what every good father does in that situation. Jenna did not immediately tell her new boyfriend that her dad lived the dream that Yan desperately wanted, to become a big-league ballplayer. The kids maintained a long-distance relationship when Gomes transferred as a junior to Barry College, a small school in Florida, and after the Blue Jays used their 10th-round pick in 2009 to take him. [...] she is a baseball wife with a degree in psychology that her dad jokes will serve her well being married to a big-leaguer. If she goes to college in 18 years and decides to date a ballplayer, you can bet that her dad and grandfather will not say a word.
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Henry Schulman, San Francisco Chronicle: Sports
Thu, 04/24/2014 - 5:55pm
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