How A High-School Dropout Became An MLB Superstar

#baseball #mlb #bryceharper Dropping out of high school is usually a pretty bad career move. From the latest statistics from 2021, the average salary of a high school drop-out was $32,500, which puts you just above the poverty line. That’s kinda like the Mendoza Line of Life. You don’t want to be anywhere near it, and if you are, then things aren’t going too well. Then there’s Bryce Harper. Usually when a kid decides to leave high school after his sophomore year, it’s to work a dead-end job and scrape by, which many teens consider a vast improvement over sitting in a classroom. There’s usually some horrible dysfunction involved. Could be a learning disability, family instability, or years of prior academic struggle. Then there’s Bryce Harper. Harper wasn’t any of those things. In fact, he was an excellent student who kept up with his assignments and also found time to devote to the teachings of his Mormon faith. He came from a two-parent home. He didn’t suffer from substance abuse issues. He wasn’t a loner at war with the world. Yet he still took a huge gamble with his life. It obviously paid off, big-time. For every Bryce Harper, however, there’s a thousand other 16 year olds who were sure they’d make it big once they said good-bye to high school forever. Usually that’s a clear path to the bottom rung of the American ladder. For Bryce Harper, it led to the riches beyond his wildest dreams and a place in baseball immortality. He’s a living and breathing MLB superstar.