Calvin nodded, but he didn’t remember.
Junior went on to show him a number of other cups, medals and plaques, charting Brock’s baseball career, Junior seemingly growing ever more proud as each achievement was chronicled.
“And here’s the scrapbook that granddaddy started. It’s got every article that mentions daddy from the Parish Creek Gazette, as well as a few from the Austin Daily Herald.”
Junior picked up a large ledger and turned the pages, his pride at his dad’s achievements obvious. Calvin read the articles; the stats were incomprehensible, but the reports of the games almost always praised Brock’s pitching.
After the scrapbook, Calvin noting that Junior didn’t linger long on the articles discussing Brock’s career-ending injury, they took to examining various baseballs and bats,—C
