This story by Hal McCoy is taken from Amazing Grace for Survivors. The Hall of Fame Sportswriter shared how he managed to keep covering baseball after becoming legally blind. The first time it happened was an August night in 2000. I was walking up to the press box in St. Louis’s Busch…
He was one of Rochester, New York’s greatest athletes in the 1950s. When I was sixteen years old and in my physical prime, and he was in his 40’s, he beat me in the 40-yard dash like I was standing still. He could have played for anybody. The Cubs wanted to talk to…
Baseball unified this father and daughter in this world and became a connection between them in the afterlife. As third base coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992, I was at the top of the world. Although it was only March, it was obvious we had a strong team and could expect a winning season….