about the author
Rick Brimeyer has been a Cubs’ fan ever since he emerged from the walkway into sun-bleached Wrigley Field in 1967 to watch Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo take batting practice. OK, so there was a meaningless one-week fling with the Cardinals in 1999 (during which he noticed he started to smell funny) and a month or so with the White Sox in 2006. But those affairs can be easily explained by remembering that the Cubs’ managers at the time were Jim Riggleman and Dusty Baker.
Following promising sandlot and Little League careers, Brimeyer saw his Major League value plummet after hitting .222 his senior year of high school. He bounced around a couple of semi-pro leagues, more accurately described as centi-pro (1/100th of a pro) leagues, before focusing on nerdy subjects in college dealing with the trajectories of projectiles such as baseballs. Through it all, his love of the game remains.
Richard D. Brimeyer
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