ESPN.com · Oct 29, 2016
With police help, Maddon's mom reaches Series
CHICAGO -- After a difficult day of travel to the World Series, Albina Maddon was met by police at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
"First of all, they had to tell her she's not being arrested," her son, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon, said Saturday. "Beanie, being from Hazleton, Polish Catholic, she would have imagined the worst first. They always do."
For Cubs fans like 88-year-old Rene Van Hulle, Chicago's first World Series trip in seven decades inspires old memories and new life.
In the first two games of the World Series, neither Terry Francona nor Joe Maddon needed to make special moves. Then came Game 3, which was just a precursor to the managerial chess match to come.