Maybe if you're lucky, someone comes into your life a few times over the years and lights it up like a birthday cake. Someone who takes you from the dumps to the penthouse in seconds flat, a walking party, someone who fills a room and makes you laugh, think, care, live. Someone who effortlessly can coax a smile even in your worst moments.
For a few dozen baseball players scattered across the country today, Donny Everett was that guy. And then, he went fishing one day and never came back.
They'll tell you he was a big ol' teddy bear, a kid in a grown man's body.