Beau Van Burrows
Detroit Tigers Organization
Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
Q: What are some of your favorite
movies?
A: Southpaw, Friday Night Lights, 8
Seconds
Q: What kind of music are you into?
A: Texas Country and Rap
Q: What’s the most daring thing
you’ve ever done?
A: The most daring thing I’ve ever
done is jump into a swimming pool
in the winter with snow and ice on
the ground around me.
Q: What accomplishment are you
most proud of?
A: My accomplishment I’m most
proud of would be getting drafted
22nd overall in the 2015 MLB Draft
by the Detroit Tigers.
Q: When you were a child, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
A: I’ve always wanted to be a professional baseball player from the time I
could even touch a baseball.
Q: How did you get into your field?
A: My dad brought baseball into my
life from the time I was a baby and
I’ve always loved it.
Q: What do you do to relax?
A: Lately, I’ve been playing a lot of
golf and hunting to relax.
Q: Who is the one person you’d like
to meet?
A: If I could meet one person it
would be the beautiful Jennifer
Aniston. I have the biggest crush on
her, even though she may be more
than twice my age.
Q: What is the one thing that makes
you happy?
A: Being on a baseball field. It’s
where I can let go of everything and
have fun and enjoy myself no matter
what.
Q: If you could go back in history,
who is the one person you would like
to meet?
A: If I could go back in time, I would
want to meet the legend himself,
Johnny Cash.
Q: Who in your life has influenced
you the most? How?
A: My parents have influenced my
life the most. If it wasn’t for them I
wouldn’t be where I am today.
Q: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
A: I want to be remembered as a
very good baseball player, but more
importantly a role model that everybody looks up to.
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Larry Fowler
meet your spouse?
A: Yes. We met when I was serving a
warrant at her company.
Q: What’s your full name?
A: Larry L. Fowler
Q: When you were a child, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
A: Pilot
Sheriff Parker County
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: Red River with John Wayne.
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Q: What kind of music are you into?
A: Country and Western
Q: What’s the most daring thing
you’ve ever done?
A: Catapult shot off an aircraft carrier
Q: What accomplishment are you
most proud of?
A: Having been a U.S. Marshal and
the Sheriff of Parker County.
Q: What makes you really sad?
A: The conditions we find some children in today.
Q: Are you married? How did you
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Q: What do you do to chill?
A: Ride my tractor
Q: If someone asked you to give
them your best piece of advice, what
would you say?
A: Think before you open your
mouth.
Q: What is the one thing that makes
you happy?
A: My wife.
Q: What scares you?
A: Not much.
Q: If you could go back in history,
who would like to meet?
A: Dwight Eisenhower and Winston
Churchill
Q: Who in your life has influenced
you the most? How?
A: My grandmother — she was the
wisest person I ever knew.
Q: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
A: Having done a good job in my
field.
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