When Scott Becker was a child, his dad came home from work and, still in his business clothes, took his boy into the back yard to play catch.

“It’s that first thing I can remember bonding with my dad over,” says Becker, now judge of the 219th District Court in McKinney. Becker’s lifelong love of baseball was born, and he pursued it through T-ball, Little League, junior and senior varsity in high school, and a stint playing Longhorn baseball.