WVU’s Maxx Yehl has overcome a lot
MORGANTOWN - It was probably easier for West Virginia University’s baseball coaches to find left-handed pitcher Maxx Yehl himself than to find the city in southwestern New York in which he lived. While Yehl himself in real life is super-sized like a Circle K Polar Pop Jug of soda that comes in a 100-ounce cup, Portville, N.Y, sits on the New York side of the border separating it from Pennsylvania, a dot on the map no bigger than Yehl’s fastball appears to a hitter as it spins toward the plate. The WVU lefthander who on Tuesday was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year, the third ...
