Michelle McRae and Jim Hughes never met.
They are linked in this space because they were good baseball people... good baseball people gone too young.
Michelle was a loving wife, a wonderful mother and the kind of woman you hear about.
For behind every great baseball man, as the saying goes, stands an even greater woman.
The great baseball man may have coached sandlot ball for 20 years, work the radio booth like Tom Cheek (hello Saint Shirley Cheek).
Or he could have taken over the four-win Canisius College Golden Griffs program and turn it into a Metro Atlantic powerhouse and an NCAA tournament regular as coach Mike McRae did.