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You just kind of do the best you can in the lower minor leagues, especially having kids. Today the Haase kids are regulars in the seats behind the plate at Comerica Park. Dad gets to come home almost every day after work, which is rare perk in the baseball world. So that kind of became a little fun for him. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

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It ruins family stories. Anyway, Gust and Bill were in business together for about eight years before they split. Bill kept Lafayette but moved to a new space next door. Gust got out of the hot dog game altogether and opened a hat-cleaning business, but then he returned with American in There has also been a rivalry between the chili companies.

That and the mustard and onions, and the way the natural casing on the hot dogs snap. It was a glorious day for my father when he discovered that he could buy frozen Coney Island chili and have it shipped to him. The chili came in an enormous brick, and my mother took it to the butcher to be sliced into manageable portions. My father always made friends at the businesses he frequented: Spiros at the dry cleaner, Dominic at the bank, Ralph at the deli.

My father, like a lot of older men, had been advised to watch his diet; he only ate Coneys when he visited Detroit or Phoenix, where he liked to go every winter and where, naturally, he discovered the Detroit Coney Grill because he had radar for things like that.

My father and I texted back and forth about it for weeks. He was skeptical at first. Then, what with one thing and another—travel, colds, bad weather—it took us a few months to get down there. Finally we managed to visit in April, for his birthday.

We sat by the window. And these players are huge. Spenny is smaller than half of them. In his first college game, Torkelson batted cleanup as the designated hitter. He didn't get a hit in four at-bats against Miami Ohio. In the second game of that doubleheader, he moved to first base after another player was injured. He had a breakout season. And I had myself a pretty good year as well. Torkelson is not big on social media — he rarely tweets. There was a rattlesnake. And somehow, the rattlesnake skin ended up on my hat as a headband.

I mean, how you gonna take care of a dog? You go to practice every day. You travel like five days out of every two weeks.