Early and Personal Life
Westbrook was born on September 29, 1977, in Athens, Georgia. His father, Cauthen, played baseball and basketball at the University of Georgia, where Jake signed a letter of intent (but never attended because he signed with the Colorado Rockies). He has an older sister, Jill.
Westbrook attended Madison County High School. He tossed 5 no-hitters and one perfect game in his high school career. During his senior season, Westbrook was 9–1 with a 1.11 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 63 innings. On March 28, 2008, Westbrook appeared at his high school alma-mater to speak and give thanks as they retired his high school #12 jersey during a home baseball game.
Westbrook married his high school sweetheart, Heather Daniels, on December 12, 1998. The couple has two sons — Jacob Parker (born September 27, 2005) and Keaton Daniels Westbrook (born November 15, 2007) — and a daughter (born September 9, 2010). They reside in Danielsville, GA. and also have a home in Germantown, TN.
Read more about this topic: Jake Westbrook
Famous quotes containing the words early, personal and/or life:
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“Life is hard, we say. An oyster’s life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)