Clate Schmidt

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FILE - In this March 2, 2013, file photo, Clemson's Clate Schmidt throws a pitch against South Carolina during an NCAA college baseball game in Greenville, S.C. As Dwight Schmidt absorbed the news of his younger son’s baseball injury, he couldn’t help but wonder, “Why my boys?” It wasn’t the first time he was faced with life-altering news about his sons. Two years ago, Clemson pitcher Clate Schmidt was diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Fast forward to this year and Clate’s younger brother Clark, a South Carolina righty projected as a potential first-round pick in the Major League Baseball draft, learned in the middle of his stellar junior season that he tore a ligament in his right elbow.(Mark Crammer /The Independent-Mail via AP, File)