Charlie Grimm, a Glove, Wrigley Field, and Generations of Baseball Love

Today would be my late wife’s 54th birthday. In addition to giving me nine wonderful years of marriage and three beautiful children, she gave me her dad, Marty. Marty was an interesting man. He never met an illness he didn’t have or couldn’t diagnose (with the help of the Physicians’ Desk Reference that he kept…
Mike Trout: Angel in Right Field

It finally happened. After years of speculation and too many years cut short due to injury(ies), future Hall of Famer Mike Trout is moving out of center field. As you may recall, when Trout made his major league debut in 2011 at age 19, he played ten games in left field, and thirteen in each…