Logan Boyer is mixing his two passions, baseball and community service

Logan Boyer’s passion for baseball goes back to when he first started playing tee ball.

He said his mother would always tell the story of how he looked at her and said, “Yep this is something that I liked to play.”

But baseball isn’t the only passion for the Hamilton High School senior who will be attending San Diego State next year on a baseball scholarship. It’s a passion for giving back to the community that he says words can’t describe the feeling he gets.

“It gives me satisfaction just knowing that I can make a big difference,” Boyer said. “I know I can put food on the table or something like that and just help somebody that needs it more than I need it.”

In addition to help leading the Huskies to the quarterfinals of last year’s AIA Division I State Baseball Tournament, Boyer also spends his Tuesday nights volunteering with the Miracle League of Arizona.

There, he says he takes special needs kids out on a miniature baseball field and plays catch and talks with them to see how their day went while getting to know them as a person.

“It just makes you feel good to go out there and see a big smile on their face and they are playing around and actually feeling special about themselves,” he said.

Besides his work with the Miracle League of Arizona, Boyer is also involved with the Student Athletes Community Service Network where he’s an advocate for the network’s anti-bullying initiative.

He said the network first contacted him after hearing about his community service, and through the network, he got a call from Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre to play for its national team.

It was just another example of how baseball has opened a lot of opportunities for him.

“I have met a lot of people through the process of all these big tournaments and going to these big events,” Boyer said. “I have gotten the opportunity to work with little kids and it just opened my eyes to see how lucky we are to have the life that we live.”

During his time playing for the network’s national team, Boyer caught the eye of Aztecs’ head coach Mark Martinez, and after a visit to the campus, he knew it was the place for him.

“I fell in love with it. Everything about it was perfect,” he said.

Boyer plans on majoring in criminal justice in college. It was a field he first got into after hunting and fishing trips with his dad and finding out that was the type of degree most game and fish wardens seek.

While it’s too soon to tell if the 17-year-old will one day be playing in the big leagues at Chase Field, or working in the Coconino National Forest as a game and fish warden, the one thing for certain though is whatever path works out for Boyer, you can count on him continuing his community service.

“It just makes your heart feel good, knowing that you are helping someone that needs it,” he said.

It also puts life in perspective.

“That’s what I think about when things don’t go my way — still being grateful for what you have because you could be in a lot worse condition.”