{"id":18665,"date":"2026-03-11T06:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/jason-heyward-honors-a-fallen-friend\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:06:16","slug":"jason-heyward-honors-a-fallen-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/sports\/jason-heyward-honors-a-fallen-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Heyward Honors a Fallen Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unproven rookies don\u2019t get to choose their uniform numbers.<\/p>\n<p>So when Jason Heyward, a 20-year-old right fielder, reported to the Atlanta Braves\u2019 Lake Buena Vista, Florida, spring training complex in February 2010, he was issued No. 71. Anonymous. Forgettable. The type of number that keeps you humble.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward hit the ball hard in the Braves\u2019 early spring training game\u2014hard enough for manager Bobby Cox and the team\u2019s star veterans to take notice.<\/p>\n<p>Almost daily, it seemed, the powerfully built 6-feet-4, 240-pounder hit a rocket somewhere\u2014into the right-centerfield alley, over the center fielder\u2019s head, far over the right field fence.<\/p>\n<p>Cox kept putting Heyward in the lineup. He had this unshakeable feeling: <em>This kid is special, this kid is going to be a star.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cox learned how special the day he told Heyward that not only had he made the team, but he was the Braves\u2019 new starting right fielder.<\/p>\n<p>First Heyward asked to change his uniform number to 22. Then he visited Tammie Ruston, his high school British Lit teacher at Henry County High School in McDonough, Georgia, near Atlanta, and gave her one of his new jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>Ruston burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p>Ruston\u2019s only child, Andrew \u201cWillie\u201d Wilmot, had worn No. 22 when he and Heyward had led Henry County to the 2005 Division AAAA Georgia State High School championship.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmot, a catcher, and Heyward were best friends. \u201cWe looked up to each other,\u201d Heyward told MLB.com. \u201cHe was fun to be around. Everybody around school loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilmot was a year older than Heyward, and he enrolled that fall at Walter State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee, to play collegiate ball. A year later he died in an auto accident.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward didn\u2019t want to forget him. It wasn\u2019t enough, he decided, to visit Ruston every off-season. He sought a way to honor his friend. Most of all, he wanted to keep Wilmot\u2019s memory alive for Ruston, and for the Henry County High baseball team.<\/p>\n<p>What better way than to adopt his friend\u2019s jersey? \u201cThere are people who will get together with you when it\u2019s easy to walk the other way,\u201d he told cbsatlanta.com.<\/p>\n<p>Ruston was overwhelmed. She attended the Braves\u2019 season opener, courtesy of Heyward, and watched from the right field seats\u2014the closest she could sit to No. 22. She swelled with pride when Hall of Fame player and Braves right field icon Hank Aaron threw out the ceremonial opening day pitch\u2014to the team\u2019s new right fielder, Heyward.<\/p>\n<p>Ruston\u2019s heart was in her throat when Heyward came to bat in the bottom of the first inning. The Braves had two men on against Carlos Zambrano, the Chicago Cubs\u2019 four-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>Zambrano threw two fastballs, both inside. Then a third, over the inner half of the plate. Heyward pivoted and ripped\u2014his first big-league swing.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran players will tell you there is a special sound when a great slugger connects. That\u2019s the sound that Cox and the Braves players heard. The ball shot like a laser into the right field seats, near where Ruston was sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward\u2019s teammates leaped from their dugout seats. So did the 53,081 fans. So did Ruston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaseball season now brings a special loneliness for me,\u201d Ruston told the <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em> not long after. \u201cBut I know that a piece of Andy lives on. That brings me so much more comfort than I can begin to express.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin Heyward played for the Braves for five seasons. 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