Tim Lincecum Proving Himself in High School

I've pieced together a post elsewhere about Tim Lincecum's success as a high school pitcher at Liberty High, located south of Seattle, in 2002 and 2003 from Seattle Times reports. To celebrate Lincecum's repeat Cy Young award today, here's an excerpt from the Times of May 30, 2003. It describes the story of Lincecum proving himself to Liberty coach Glen Walker in spring 2002:

The glowing reports, the junior-varsity success, the numerous promises that the kid could pitch—let’s just say they didn’t make an immediate believer out of Glen Walker.

“I’m looking at this 5-foot-9, 120-pound body going, ‘How good can he be?’ ” said Walker, Liberty’s baseball coach.

Then one afternoon last spring, Walker threw the skinny kid with the live right arm into a positively treacherous save situation against conference-rival Skyline.

One out. Man on second. Two all-state players, Dan Gronski and Derek Decater, due up. Tim Lincecum struck them both out. Looking.

And from then on, Walker needed no convincing.

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