Joe Girardi dealing with father's Alzheimer's

Before Joe Girardi rose from a high school prospect to big-league catcher to Yankees manager, he was a boy in Peoria, Ill., who wrote a third-grade essay about wanting to be a big-league ballplayer someday, and he was thrilled to call himself Jerry Girardi's son. The two of them not only played backyard games of catch or caught five or six Cubs games a year at Wrigley Field. They went everywhere together, Joe says now with a laugh, "To the point if my dad turned around, I'd probably run into him." (link)