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.
He remembers the family organizing life around his and his younger brother’s baseball schedules, sometimes staying at the ballpark until 1 a.m. If his father couldn’t leave work in time to help warm up Becker’s pitching arm before games, his mother would step in.
