10 Things You Didn't Know About Jacoby Ellsbury

He's got a mean vertical leap. On his high school basketball team, he often won the jump-all, sometimes against a 6-foot-10 opponent. He's 6-1. At left, Ellsbury made an acrobatic catch against the Oakland A's in Tokyo March 25.
He's got a mean vertical leap. On his high school basketball team, he often won the jump-all, sometimes against a 6-foot-10 opponent. He's 6-1.

At left, Ellsbury made an acrobatic catch against the Oakland A's in Tokyo March 25.
(Globe Staff Photo / Barry Chin)