UNIVERSITY PARK
Hannah Shields, a State College native and now a contributor on the Penn State softball team, remembers waiting in her driveway with a glove in hand and bat by her side. She waited and waited until her father, Gene, came home from work at quarter till four — and when he did, the 11-year-old asked him the same thing, day after day: “Dad, can we go across the street?”
Dalevue Park and its ball field sits within sight of the Shields’ home on Goldfinch Drive. Gene couldn’t say no.
And he’s happy he didn’t.