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White Sox's Sodfather keeps going despite foot injury

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He has designed fields for a dozen other Major League Baseball teams, but for more than 50 years, White Sox head groundskeeper Roger Bossard has called the South Side park his home — just like his father. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune)

You know what they say on the South Side — neither rain nor snow nor gloom of last place will keep "The Sodfather" from his appointed rounds.

Roger Bossard, the White Sox head groundskeeper affectionately known as "The Sodfather," has kept his iron man streak alive at 51 years and running (or walking) despite a broken pinkie toe on his right foot.