CLEVELAND
For the last two seasons, Mike Montgomery watched nearly every pitch of the World Series. Maybe he would have done this anyway, he says. He’s always been a baseball junkie. But in this case, as he lounged on a couch and sat in front of the television, the viewing experience was deeply personal. He couldn’t take his eyes off the screen.
The Kansas City Royals were his first club, the organization that drafted him, nurtured him and offered him a career. As he watched during the last two Octobers, this strange feeling kept surfacing.
“I kind of felt the feeling of ‘What if?