SALEM, Va. - It’s been a wondrous 53 weeks for 2015 Chicago Cubs first-round draft pick and Myrtle Beach Pelicans second baseman Ian Happ on the baseball diamond.
Sunday delivers a poignant reminder of his greatest personal loss off it.
It will be Happ’s first Father’s Day since the passing of his dad, Keith, who died in October at age 58 as a result of brain cancer.
“It’s going to be tough,” Happ told B/R before a recent Pelicans road game against the Salem Red Sox.
Next week, Happ, 21, will be representing the Pelicans in Tuesday’s Carolina-California League All Star Game in Lake Elsnore, Calif.