One day early in the 2013 season, I went down to speak to the ball dude who was working the game that day and briefly relayed a story.  I asked if he had a story he would like to share.  And he quickly said yes.  I gave him my email address and was unsure if I would hear from him.  I did.

Gary Fralick (Frano)’s story just made me cry.  You will find it in the chapter Home Runs on p.244. If you have the book, read it before you read the rest of this piece.  It was beautiful.  The power of doing the right thing, which can be just a simple gesture, and how it affected, by my count, five lives, including his own.   And all the adulation he got for just doing that simple thing which, to him, was, well, what he thought anyone should/would do.  Just an amazing story.