by Kent Sterling When I was a kid, I thought Ernie Banks was the coolest man alive. He got to play baseball for a living, and he always did it with a smile on his face. Like few men or women who walk among us, we are better for his example. Today, he died at […]
by Kent Sterling I didn’t get to see Ernie Banks play a whole lot. My cognitive memory developed just as Ernie Banks physical talents finally eroded, but he was the defining figure at that time in Chicago sports. Banks’ unvarnished enthusiasm for his job was infectious. To watch a guy play baseball everyday who seemed […]