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'He completed our family': How a cardboard cutout kept Alex Cobb's promise to a fallen soldier's son

Major League Baseball's 2020 cutout craze was never intended to be anything more than a fad. Fun in the throes of a pandemic. Faces taped to ballpark seats so we could laugh instead of cry -- and be given something to think about besides the fact that we wanted to be sitting there ourselves.

But amid the images of celebrities, retired ballplayers and people's pets were faces with stories that went much deeper than the two dimensions of a Correx cutout. You just had to know where to look. Say, along the front row of the outfield at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays.