Kenny rogers baseball biography for kids

It was strawberry fields forever where Kenny Rogers grew up, on a 15-acre strawberry farm in Dover, Florida, in the heart of Hillsborough County, just a bit west of Plant City, home of the annual state Strawberry Festival.

Plant City was also where the Cincinnati Reds held spring training for many years, so Rogers grew up in baseball country, too, where kids play baseball year-round and where half a dozen or so major-league teams train in the spring in and around the Tampa area.

Kenneth Scott Rogers was born on November 10, 1964, in Savannah, Georgia, to Edgar “Earl” Rogers, a career US Air Force member, and his wife, Carol.

When Earl retired to his Florida strawberry patch, he fully expected his son to follow in his footsteps as a farmer, and that certainly appeared the youngster’s path. Until his senior year at Plant City High School, Kenny had only dabbled in some Little League baseball, but that year he played right field for the school team, and that was when h