Video: Chicago Cubs' Kyle Schwarber playing high school footballSee the former Middletown (Ohio) standout on the gridiron.When Kyle Schwarber was called up to the Chicago Cubs last month, all he did was hit .364 with a home run and six RBIs in six games.
His reward? A one-way ticket to Des Moines.
It must have been hard for the Cubs' front office to send Schwarber back to the minors, but that was the plan all along — to give Schwarber a brief taste of the big league life.
Schwarber's minor league days might be a thing of the past, however, now that the Cubs have called him up once again.
Not every player could handle the roller coaster ride, but Schwarber is a tough kid from Ohio. So tough, in fact, that he was a second team all-state linebacker for
Middletown (Ohio).
MaxPreps was on hand to get photos of the young standout on the football field, years before he would become a part of the resurgent Cubs' young core.
