 Landfair grew up with his mother and two sisters in Springfield, Virginia, and with his father in California - at first near Los Angeles, then in San Francisco.He enrolled at the University of Texas in 2001, on full academic scholarship from the United States Navy with the ambition to become a SEAL.Dared by fellow Midshipmen to show up at the baseball team's October 2002 walk-on tryout, Landfair earned a spot on the roster.