Bill Freehan lies on a hospital bed in the middle of the room.
The World Series is on the TV.
“Boston is playing,” Pat Freehan tells Bill, her husband.
But she doesn’t know whether he can fully understand her.
Freehan, one of the greatest Detroit Tigers ever, cannot walk, cannot speak and cannot eat on his own.
“Is he aware?” Pat asks. “I don’t know. Those are the things you don’t know."
"But his World Series trophy is on the mantel," she says.
Fifty years after helping the Tigers win the 1968 World Series, Bill Freehan suffers from dementia and is under the care of Hospice of Michigan at his home in northern Michigan.