'We keep pushing forward': The story behind Tim Anderson's promise

shortstop Tim Anderson walks onto the field at Camelback Ranch in Arizona, where he's working in spring training, preparing to defend his American League batting title. (Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images)One day his daughters will be ready for his story. They’ll be old enough. Wise enough. Courageous enough. The people they know and love, even those they only sense, will fit into their places. One day. Though, the truth is, Tim Anderson Jr. is still sorting through some of that himself.

He has time. They’re so young. He is, too, just 26. The story’s still gathering characters, scenery, meaning.

One day they’ll laugh and cry in all the places their dad laughed and cried, and they’ll understand…