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With the help of his parents and older siblings — all of them athletes — the Cubs’ new shortstop found stardom.
If there was one thing Dansby Swanson just plain couldn’t do as a college player at Vanderbilt, it was grab some bench — by which we simply mean sitting down in the dugout during a game, taking a load off, preserving some of the energy his baseball-loving dad, Cooter, worried was being unnecessarily spent.
“You need to keep some of that for yourself,” Cooter would advise him.