The Parkland College alum has done his school proud, becoming one of the small number of umpires to work in Major League Baseball. Mark Carlson, who first reached the bigs in 1999, is coming off his first World Series appearance. Staff writer Bob Asmussen caught up to Carlson on Friday as he was preparing for the season and next week’s trip to Champaign for the Parkland College Hall of Fame ceremony:
Same first question for everybody: Do you want to be Illinois AD?
An AD job would be great. But it would be a very time-consuming job.