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General  | General | 2/9/2026

Nash Embraces All Things Perfect Game

Jim Salisbury
Photo: Carter Nash & Mo Vaughn (Perfect Game)
CARTER NASH EMBRACES ALL THINGS PG

By Jim Salisbury 



COLUMBUS, Ohio – It’s cold outside. The wind is whipping. Is that sleet? Ugh.

Think spring. Think baseball.

Carter Nash surely is.

Nash looked right at home during a visit to the American Baseball Coaches Association annual convention last month. Outside, the weather was frightful. Inside, it was baseball season. Nash lit up radar guns with his smile as he made his way through the convention hall and the event’s bustling trade show. He checked out all the new equipment, all the cutting-edge technologies and even met a few former major leaguers.

“It’s like a baseball heaven to me right now,” the wide-eyed 15-year-old said.

Nash is one of the bright young talents of Perfect Game. You’ll be hearing a lot about him in the coming years, if you haven’t already. He’s played in PG’s 11U, 12U, 13U and 14U Select Festivals. He’s a gifted hitter, runner and outfielder.

And the personality …

We’re talking top of the scale.

Nash didn’t just roam around the trade show at the ABCA convention. He grabbed a microphone and conducted interviews with the PG media team. One minute, he was chatting with the folks from Mine Baseball. Another, he was hanging with Brooke, the popular social media influencer behind @BrookeKnowsBall. He was so at ease, so natural behind a microphone and in front of a camera that you couldn’t help but think he might one day have a future hosting Good Morning America. After his ball-playing days, of course.

Eventually, Nash dropped in on Mo Vaughn, the 1995 American League MVP who was there representing his own Vaughn Sports Academy and conducting interviews with the likes of Don Mattingly and Harold Reynolds for his MVP Podcast.

“What an impressive kid,” Vaughn said after a 15-minute sit down with the strapping, 5-11, 195-pound youngster.

PG CEO Rob Ponger agreed with Vaughn’s scouting report.

“Last year, our scouts brought Carter to our attention,” Ponger said. “They were like, ‘You’ve got to meet this kid.’ He’s got a great personality. He’s a great athlete. He’s smart. He has a ton of talent. But more than the talent, there’s a natural charisma. On top of it all, he’s a hell of a baseball player and a good kid, raised right. We’re very proud of him.

“He loves the PG environment. He’s so happy to be part of PG and now we’re propping him up and he’s going to become a personality. Hopefully one day he gets drafted or goes to play in college and gets some NIL money and -- listen, we want him to have PG memories that last a lifetime. The kid is a star. He’s a star at 15. He’s a personality at 15. I love to see kids take advantage of the PG platform and he’s doing it so well.”

Nash played varsity football at Dorman High School in Roebuck, South Carolina as a freshman last fall. A second-string running back, he scored seven touchdowns. More certainly will be in his future.

But baseball is his first love. Always has been. He started swinging a bat at 3. “No tee-ball, right off a machine,” he said with a laugh. He hit his first home run at a PG tournament in North Carolina when he was 10. He still has the ball. And many other home run balls, as well.

Nash loves the PG scene, loves traveling to tournaments, loves testing himself against top competition.

“Last year, I was in Florida, California, Texas, all over,” he said. “It’ll be the same thing this summer. It’s great.”

He recalled meeting Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr., at the Hank Aaron Invitational last summer in Florida and how Griffey offered insights on the showdown between the hitter and pitcher.

“He talked about the mental side of it, how you have to live pitch to pitch and beat the pitcher in a one-on-one battle,” Nash said.

Nash played on Dorman’s varsity baseball team as an eighth grader last year. He will remember Griffey’s advice as he returns to the varsity team for his freshman season this spring.

He will also be strengthened by some of the wisdom Vaughn passed along during their chat at the ABCA convention a few weeks ago.

“Mo talked about situational hitting, know the inning, know the score, know the pitcher, who’s on base,” Nash said. “Understand the situation and capitalize on it. He talked about learning from your tough days, how he went 0 for 15 in the playoffs one year but bounced back.”

True enough. Vaughn went hitless in 15 at-bats for Boston in the 1995 American League Division Series. The next time he played in the postseason, he hit .412 (7 for 17) with two doubles and two homers.

Turns out Nash and Vaughn had previously met each other. A couple of years ago, Nash hit two homers against a team Vaughn coached at a tournament at East Cobb in Georgia. Vaughn, at first, did not remember the meeting but did when Nash produced a picture of the two taken after the game.

“That was you?!” Vaughn said with a big smile.

Vaughn capped his chat with Nash by urging the young player to develop good work habits, avoid distractions and get proper rest.

And one more thing:

Be a good listener.

That doesn’t appear to be a problem for Nash. He uses the word “sponge” frequently. He was a sponge learning from older players on the football field last fall, a sponge listening to Griffey last summer, and a sponge listening to Vaughn on a cold winter day in January. He promised to be a sponge as the weather warms and the new baseball season gets underway very soon.

Carter Nash has many miles to go in a baseball journey that he hopes will one day lead to the place that Vaughn and Griffey reached. Armed with talent, smarts, a glowing personality and many good friends at Perfect Game, he’s on a good path.
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