Even a fire aboard a passenger plane couldn't stop Joe Maddon's mother from attending Game 3 of the World Series on Friday. A police escort made sure of that.
Albina Maddon, 83 was met by police at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after a hectic day of travel from her Pennsylvania home to Chicago.
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"First of all, they had to tell her she's not being arrested," Joe Maddon told reporters Saturday before Game 4 of the World Series. "Beanie, being from Hazleton, Polish Catholic, she would have imagined the worst first.