Brendan Grant loved playing baseball and had a knack for batting and hitting home runs, said his father, Casey Grant. As a student at Belmont High School, Brendan played varsity football and served as captain of the Marauder wrestling and baseball teams in his senior year (1999 to 2000). In the spring of 2001, he was a first-year starter for the Yellow Jacket baseball team at American International College in Springfield. During a summer league baseball game at the Belmont…