It’s hard to shock the Sodfather.
White Sox head groundskeeper Roger Bossard, known far and wide for his reputation as the Don of Dirt, has seen it all in his 53 years of tending fields for hundreds of Sox players.
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Bossard was there when the Sox installed an AstroTurf infield in 1969 through 1975. (“It’s not the way the game should be played. It’s phony,” he later groused to the Tribune.) He was there pulling out his thinning hair during the Disco Demolition riot of ’79 that ravaged old Comiskey Park and forced the Sox to forfeit a game.