Growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan, I got to attend many Minor League Baseball games as we had a team of our own, the Michigan Battle Cats. As a Chicago Cubs fan, I always tried to go when the hometown team was playing the Lansing Lugnuts, a Cubs affiliate. There’s one game in particular that I still remember 20 years later.
It was 1999, and I was 14 years old. My mom took my cousin, my brother, and me to a doubleheader, and we sat out in the left field seats. I was particularly excited to see two top Cubs prospects, outfielder Corey Patterson and first baseman Hee-Seop Choi.