ATLANTA - The son returned from Japan, the latest stop in his baseball odyssey, and bought the father a gleaming new condominium. It was the least Terry Collins could do for the man who shaped him.
Loren "Bud" Collins raised his family in tiny Midland, Michigan. And to his son, now the manager of the Mets, he passed along all Terry would need to make his life in the game.
Yet the father failed to comprehend why his son had been so generous.
"He said to me, 'You know what? I cannot believe that anybody would ever do something like this for me,' " Collins said of his late father recently.