Trevor Story's high school coach: "You could say he's our mainstay"

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Now that Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story is off to a historic Major League Baseball start, everyone wants to know how his story started. As fans have discovered, MaxPreps is the place to find out.

He was a two-sport standout at Irving (Texas), but gave up quarterbacking football after his sophomore year to focus on baseball.

Good choice.

Story wasn't just the shortstop, but a hard-throwing pitcher who once clocked in — according to reporters — at 96 mph.

Listed as a 6-foot-1, 175-pound shortstop as a senior in 2011, Story always looked up to his older brother Tyler, who also played at Irving.

He wanted to play with Tyler when he was a senior, but Trevor, only a freshman at the time, didn't make the varsity team.

"He was a senior. I was kind of mad at our coach for not putting me on varsity my freshman year, but I was moved up for the last four games," Story told MLB.com.

"When I got there, I think I did well. But really, it was just fun playing with my brother, because I always wanted to do that — especially for the Irving Tigers."

His high school coach Jay Malone told the Dallas Morning News that up to 28 scouts would come out to watch Story practice.

Malone made Story the team's No. 3 hitter as a sophomore and as a senior he hit just under .500 with 20 extra base hits and 11 steals. Most teams pitched around him.

Speaking of pitching, he was something of a pitching prospect too. A radar clocked him at 96 mph in a showcase at TCU, but he never seriously pursued pitching.

Malone went out on a limb during Story's senior year and said "He plays a big role in everything we do," he told the newspaper. "You could say he's our mainstay."

After hitting his sixth home run in four games Friday in the Rockies' home opener — he set a Major League record with at least one home run in his first three MLB games — they're calling him "rookie phenom."

That sort of moniker would seem to add pressure, but none of it is bothering Story now. With all those scouts watching his every move at a young age, he's sort of used to a lot of eyeballs.

Back then, he had committed to LSU, but when taken in the first round with the 45th selection by the Rockies, he accepted the $915,000 signing bonus.

"I wouldn't say I'm nervous," Story told reporters back when he was a senior at Irving. "I'm excited. We'll just have to wait and see where I'll end up."

He's at a pretty good spot right now.