Sports of The Times: At Every Level, Appreciating a Veteran Voice
Published 5/6/2008 at NYT > Baseball
Baseball players everywhere should have given their caps a tip when they learned that Julio Franco had stepped to the plate for the last time. John Wilson, 53, certainly did.
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