Happy Father’s Day!
As Father’s Day approaches this Sunday, we turn our attention to dads everywhere. For many sports fans, a love of baseball was likely passed down through a parent (not necessarily dad! We have plenty of baseball-loving moms out there). There’s just something special about sharing a love of team through the family tree.
While my own father wasn’t a big baseball guy (I could do a different column about “Formula 1 memories with dad” for my childhood), a lot of folks grew up watching baseball or attending games with their dads. And even now, many of our readers and staff are fathers, introducing the sport to their own children.
So for our Friday open thread this week, we want your best, funniest, most heart-warming dad-related baseball stories. Either stories with you and your dad (or grandfather or mom-shaped parental-figure if you were raised by a single mom… We did forget to do this thread on Mother’s Day, so it’s only fair). Or if you’re the dad now and want to share a fun memory about sharing the game with your own kids, we want to hear that, too.