An overview of the Boys of Summer series

by Ashley Asti

Growing up, Robert Cochrane never noticed that his dad didn’t really love baseball. Robert loved baseball: the history of the game, the announcers’ voices, the smells and tastes of being at a ballpark, the cast of characters he’d meet there. “It was the most romantic game of my youth,” he said. It was the 1970s and 80s and baseball was still America’s pastime. Robert remembers playing baseball as a kid and the “unbelievable feeling of hitting a ball…There was almost nothing better than hitting it over the fence.” 

Robert’s dad, Dan, came to all his games and would watch the Major Leagues on TV with him. It wasn’t until Robert was older that he realized his dad never felt the same passion for the game that he did; instead, his dad saw his son’s passion for the sport and decided to use baseball as a bridge—when shared, it could bring them closer.

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