The 12-year-old boy held the ball in his left hand as he prepared to serve. “All that time I missed as a kid, I wasn’t able to get it back,” Schertz says. “The alternative is to not care about anyone or love anybody deeply and you don’t experience any pain, but you also don’t get the incredible moments and memories …
With almost every pitch, Dave Roberts’ eyes impulsively darted toward the mound. While Roberts was careful not to thrust baseball onto his son — “I didn’t want him to feel that pressure to walk in my footsteps,” Roberts said — the sport became Cole’s passion anyway, reinforced every time he accompanied his dad to the ballpark. And even as it …
