Controlling who your children marry is next to impossible. Just ask Art Hanley of Peoria, Ill.
Hanley raised six boys and two girls to be hardcore Cubs fans like himself, only to have one of his daughters, Rosemary, head off to the University of Illinois, meet Cardinals fan Chris Gillespie of Teutopolis, Ill., fall in love and get married. The couple now is expecting a baby girl.
"We're working on him," Hanley said of his son-in-law's team choice. "There's a lot of time."
Gillespie shook his head at the notion that he would some day, merely because of in-law-like pressure, switch his allegiance away from the Redbirds.