Opening Day!

Today is the Colorado Rockies home opener at Coors Field.  The Rockies started the 2015 baseball season in Milwaukee this past Monday, and won all three games, and so naturally, with only 159 games left to play, people are already talking World Series (or World Serious, as the "Busher" called it in Ring Lardner's book "You Know Me, Al."  However, since I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and am therefore first and foremost a Chicago baseball fan, in honor of Opening Day I have decided to feature two of Chicago's greatest baseball icons, both of whom have recently passed away.  Positioned in front of the Comiskey Park Scoreboard ( a photograph I took back in 1980) are, on the left, Ernie Banks, the great Chicago Cubs shortstop and first baseman, and on the right, Minnie Minoso, star outfielder for the Chicago White Sox back when I was a mere slip of a lad in the South Side neighborhood of Brainerd. Just by coincidence, Ernie Banks was the first black baseball player for the Chicago Cubs, and Minnie Minoso was the first black player for the Chicago White Sox.  Banks went on to be known as Mr. Cub and Minoso Mr. White Sox. Let's play two, guys!