It’s 1952 and we were in the second year of Official Little League Baseball in Elgin, which fielded two teams. I was 12 years old and played for the Kiwanis Blue team coached by Mr. Otto Haverland and Mr. Ray Coffman.In our young eyes, Coach Haverland was a gruff older man and we were scared of him. I think this was the first time he’d coached kids instead of adults. This was my first time to play organized baseball and he was a town legend as a ball player.One of our nightly night games against Hutto was rained out, and ...