Even now Rick Hahn can’t help but smile and shake his head. The White Sox general manager is sitting in an office at Camelback Ranch, thinking back to that electric night last summer at Guaranteed Rate Field. The anticipation. The excitement. Hope at its purest.
Close to 25,000 fans were craving that first glimpse into the crystal ball, that first look at Yoan Moncada as a symbol of where baseball on the South Side might be headed.
Hahn had his son with him at that July 19 game against the Dodgers. Both of them, of course, were locked in and enlivened by the energy pulsing around the ballpark.