Stories are often told about the game of baseball being passed from father to son and then from son to his son — and so on. For Mariners first base coach Casey Candaele, it’s just a little different.
As Casey tells when we sat down with him, his mother, Helen Callaghan Candaele, played for five years in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and, growing up, it was she who taught him the game.
She would talk a little, then, about her experience playing baseball, but it wasn’t until Casey’s brother Kelly starting doing research on the league before he eventually got a sense for what it was all about and what his mother had accomplished.