After a long offseason break, Oscar returns to share some common knowledge.
Back in 2000, I left my suburban home on the northeast side of Houston, Texas to move up to a small town in western Illinois. The name of that town is Galesburg. It was three hours from Chicago, three hours from St. Louis and surrounded by corn. It was the hometown of three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandberg. It was also the home of George Reeves, the actor who would famously portray Superman in the 1950s, and Whitcomb L. Judson, the inventor of the zipper. I had moved up to Galesburg with my father, who had taken a job there, before the start of my junior year in high school, while my mother and sister stayed in Houston to try and sell our house.