"Baseball was my identity. I think my identity as a child was very much still first sports," he says. "My perfectionist mentality did not really allow my true athletic ability to come out" After being cut from the minor leagues in 1996, you went on to study art at Chicago's School of the Artistic of Chicago.
A love for craftsmanship, design, and baseball brings music legend Jack White and design entrepreneur Ben Jenkins together. In 2016, Jack White became an investor in Ben Jenkins's sporting goods brand, Warstic. Today the company does so much more than manufacture artisan baseball bats.