MY GRANDMA/ \NO ORDINARY CUB FAN!

      My Grandma, Wilhemina Marie Fredericka Schultz Smith(1889-1984) was no ordinary Cubs fan. Minnie could have conversed with the best of the sports commentators. Any of them!

     Up until the day she passed away she followed her Cubs. On several of my visits. in her later years at a nursing home in Marshalltown she continued to astound and embarrass me on Cub info. and major league baseball in general.

      She knew the salaries, batting averages, who was and had been traded to whom and why it was a good deal or not. All I could do was sit there on many visits and let her go on. It wasn't right for her to know all this stuff. She was a girl. A ninety plus year old girl!

       She didn't like basketball because it all moved too fast for her on the TV screen. And, she wasn't a big football fan either. But, she grew up with baseball as her husband and my Grandpa played baseball. She was amazing. Harry Carry would have loved interviewing her. Wouldn't she be loving this 2015 team now!