Kevin youkilis family

You’ve seen him on television and in movies. You’ve perhaps enjoyed his beer or seen him on his web series.

Oh yeah, he was a pretty good baseball player too.

Kevin Edmund Youkilis was born on Thursday, March 15, , in Cincinnati to Carolyn (Weekley) and Mike “Bear” Youkilis, who was himself a “well known third baseman in the Jewish Community Center fast-pitch softball league.”1 Mike came from a Jewish family, while Carolyn converted to Judaism upon marriage, and they owned Midwest Diamond Distributors, where Kevin and his older brother, Scott, worked during their childhood.2

A right-handed-hitting and -throwing third baseman, Kevin began playing baseball at Cincinnati’s Sycamore High School.

According to his coach, Chris Shrimpton, the freshman Youkilis needed time to develop his body, but had “raw talent with a lot of potential.”3

Kevin found quick success, winning the varsity starting third-base job his sophomore year, as well as an AAU championship, in

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