Weekend Rumblings - News for August 15, 2015
Mike Sweeney will be inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame today, deservedly so. Sweeney's success came at an unfortunate time in Royals history, but he is remembered fondly.
“He treated the parking lot attendant the same way he treated Mr. Glass,” Lefebvre says. “It wasn’t phony.”
There is one other story, one that came during Sweeney’s final year in Kansas City. It was 2007, the year Zack Greinke had returned to baseball. In the previous years, Sweeney says, he and Greinke had enjoyed many long talks about baseball and life, often through tears.