An amazing 48 hours

It’s been just about 48 hours–give or take a few minutes–since Kris Bryant threw over to first base to end the Cubs’ long championship drought. In an instant, a lifetime of losing was washed away. The “loveable losers” never existed in the first place, but that concept went away forever on the night of November

The more things change….

I was paging through a book today and I came upon this line: “He told me of the interest of Chicago in Base Ball; how…thousands of lovers of the game at Chicago were wild for a winning team, but couldn’t get one” This could have been written today, but it was actually written a century

Paying my respects

My paternal grandfather died a few years before I was born, and as a result I never got to meet him. But something he did in his lifetime benefited me immensely. He served in World War I, which was one of the few things I ever got to learn about him, and is the only