Tom Pukstys (a former American track and field athlete (skills of running, jumping, and throwing)) older brother Andrew was attending medical school before he quit the baseball team.
Thomas Paul Pukstys (born May 28, 1968) is a former American track and field athlete who was a javelin thrower. Track and field (Athletics) is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. His older brother Andrew was attending medical school in Lithuania, and returned home with a gift for Pukstys: a javelin. Thereafter, Pukstys quit the high school baseball team, and went out for the track team, throwing the javelin 155 feet in his first track meet. 
