Talon Harris was a promising high school baseball player with the Soddy-Daisy Trojans being scouted by the major leagues until a accident nearly claimed his life in March 2012. Recently, Harris stepped up to the plate for the first time since his accident with his church softball team.
Talon Harris runs to first base after hitting a ball during a church softball game.Talon Harris sported a fat lip and eight or 10 blue stitches in his mouth as he dug in at the plate at Veterans Park in Soddy-Daisy last week.
It was only appropriate for a guy used to giving his all on the field.
The former Soddy-Daisy High School baseball star was making his first appearance in an official game since a devastating March 2012 truck wreck left him with a brain injury, broken bones and a bruised heart and lung.
Harris’ mouth injury had come in an earlier practice for a church softball league game, a different venue than the college baseball game he might have expected to be playing in before the wreck, but one he vows is only a stepping stone to bigger things.
“I’m confident I will make it back to what I love to do,” he says. “I am 200 percent sure of getting back out there catching, hitting and throwing people out by a mile.”