NEW YORK — The fusillade would usually start around 9 a.m. on Saturdays. Click! Clack! Clank! Tim Shannon would look out the window of his home on Morias Avenue in Millville, N.J., and sure enough, there would be young Mike Trout, in full Little League uniform, tossing up rocks and hitting them with a Wiffle ball bat from the house next door.
"He'd have a 4 p.m. game and would be up Saturday morning whacking gray driveway stones, knocking them over the trees and into my yard, pinging them off my house," said Shannon, now 65. "I had to whistle at him, cuss at him. 'Yo, Mikey, cut it out, dude! You're gonna knock my windows out!' "
Denise Arrigo is a former Millville High School teacher who sat Trout, then a sophomore, right behind then-senior Jessica Tara Cox in her Spanish class, a pairing that sparked the relationship that led to a 2007 prom date, 2017 wedding and 2020 birth of a son. She also had Trout in a last-period study hall.
