Courtesy of the Cubs
Longtime Cubs clubhouse manager Tom “Otis” Hellmann saved what had started out as a disastrous first day around the major-league team for a young Ian Happ.
It was 2015, and Happ was the Cubs’ first-round pick that year, just promoted from short-season Eugene to Single-A South Bend. The plan was for Happ to stop by Wrigley Field for batting practice on his way. But when he arrived in Chicago, his bag — which held his bat, batting gloves and shoes — was headed to South Bend.