The Chicago Cubs just knocked the St. Louis Cardinals out of the 2015 postseason and are on their way to the National League Championship Series. And Bob Gale, a lifelong Redbirds diehard, is still one of the happiest baseball nuts you'll find in the past, present or, wait for it …
Future.
As in "Back to the Future," the movie-turned-franchise that Gale wrote along with director Robert Zemeckis, spawned two sequels, itself into the American pop culture lexicon for 30 years.
One of the off-the-field storylines that started to creep up throughout the summer and has now exploded into October is the eerie, prescient and hilarious fact that when Marty McFly (played by Michael J.