SALEM, Va. — It's been a wondrous 53 weeks for 2015 Chicago Cubs first-round draft pick and Myrtle Beach Pelicans second baseman Ian Happ on the baseball diamond.
Sunday delivers a poignant reminder of his greatest personal loss off it.
It will be Happ's first Father's Day since the passing of his dad, Keith, who died in October at age 58 as a result of brain cancer.
"It's going to be tough," Happ told B/R before a recent Pelicans road game against the Salem Red Sox.
Next week, Happ, 21, will represent the Pelicans in Tuesday's Carolina/California All-Star Game in Lake Elsinore, California. His ...
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." - Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox, 2001
"Mystique and Aura" were appearing nightly in the Bronx during the 2001 World Series, but they missed the flight to Arizona.
The "Curse of the Bambino" enveloped the Boston Red Sox for 86 years until Boston was able to add Curt Schilling to a rotation that included Pedro Martinez. The Bambino has missed all three Red Sox duck boat parades since 2004.
The Chicago White Sox were damned to eternal baseball purgatory because of the ...
