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Ross Newhan, the 2000 Spink Award winner for his work at the Los Angeles Times, had the good fortune to see his life in baseball extend beyond the press box. In a compelling and emotional interview, he talks about his son David’s career in the big leagues.

Here is an excerpt from a Father Day’s column in 2004 in which Newhan wrote about David’s Major League career for the first time.

In his debut game at San Diego, appearing as a pinch runner, David stole second, turned a fine double play and scored the winning run.

His mother and sister were up cheering each of his contributions, but I sat amid the crowd at Qualcomm Stadium, not sure of how I should respond but beaming internally nonetheless, thinking of my father and knowing the baseball dots extend to the old Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and all those times my dad and I sat in the last row of the top deck watching the Angels of the Pacific Coast League – most often doubleheaders that had me begging to go by mid-game of the nightcap while my dad would say, “Patience, only a few more innings.”

The seeds were planted then, as they were probably planted for a young David on those wonderful March afternoons when I was covering the latter-day Angels in Palm Springs and he had the opportunity to serve as a bat boy for exhibition games and soak up the environment while sweeping the clubhouse.

I suspect it was then that David began to realize the best way to communicate with Dad was through baseball.