LOS ANGELES — Unfortunately, Easton Mascarenas-Arnold cannot quite pinpoint the moment he found out he was named after a baseball bat.
He knows, simply, it came as an homage from mother Toni, a former All-American and College World Series winner in her time playing softball at Arizona. Easton. The bat manufacturer. It was pure fate that Toni’s son would pick up a bat one day, too, his story written right there on his birth certificate.
The problem, however, was that Easton Mascarenas-Arnold did not like baseball.