People forget. Big-league baseball players double as big-league baseball fans.
They’re even human beings. They have favorite teams. They drive to sports bars to watch games, as Mickey Lolich did Wednesday night in joining close friends for Game 7 of the World Series, which in Lolich’s case came 48 years after he started for the Tigers in a Game 7 against the Cardinals that delivered Detroit’s 1968 world championship.
This dilly of a 2016 Series ended Wednesday when 40 million viewers watched the Cubs, who had last played in a World Series in 1945 against the Tigers, finally put away the Indians for a championship that seemed to make all of baseball a winner.