I am pleased to introduce Al Hippensteel as our Saturdays with Seniors guest blogger today. Raised on the far south side of Chicago, Al has been a White Sox fan since 1957, he’s been married to his wife Donna since 1972, and says he “has never met a donut he didn’t like.” After years working […]

Last Monday, I watched an MLB game. In person. With Beth and our friend, a Cleveland fan who lives in the hood. It felt pretty normal–in an abnormal way. Fans were scattered through the lower and upper decks, with the largest grouping being four. Our electronic tickets indicated which gate to enter and which zone […]

You know where we’re having dinner tonight? At the White Sox-Cleveland game! It’ll be different than the last game we went to in 2019, to be sure. We’re assigned to a section and we can’t roam the park and hang out on the outfield concourse like we usually do. But I’ll float on the aroma […]

Last night, I watched the White Sox beat the Cubs in an exhibition game, part of the teams’ preparation for a truncated season. That season will be 60 games, if they’re lucky enough to finish; a normal season is 162 games. There were no drunken brawls between the contentious fan bases in the stands, because […]

I hope you’ll watch it. After NFL player Colin Kaepernick famously took a knee to protest police abuse of Black people and broader racial inequality, some fellow athletes spoke out in support. A lot of people responded by saying “Stick to sports.” That always happens to sports figures who speak up about things outside of […]