ST. LOUIS • If it happens, decades from now we’ll learn all about the trek the newest Hall of Famer’s parents took for his or her birth, how they triangulated three seemingly unrelated events and set out to capture some numerological magic today, of all days, in small-town Pennsylvania.
We’ll hear how the weather hovered around freezing all morning, how the clouds veiling the sun, and even perhaps how when they arrived to complete their quest the soon-to-be parents realized one miscalculation.
If there’s one baseball scout who, on a lark, followed that same compass to Donora, Pa.