Grandpa Roundman stands tall
Grandpa Roundman had fake legs. He'd let me put them over my tiny legs and walk around his apartment. He'd laugh as I tumbled around on his carpet.
He didn't always have prosthetics, he had long strong legs that made him a fierce baseball player. One problem with the Atkinson family...we're all shorty's.
His favorite baseball team was the Chicago Cubs. Favorite is an understatement. My family lives, breathes and obsesses over the Cubs all year round. In this snapshot he's in Chicago, playing on Wrigley field. That must have been a dream of his. Not only to play on the same green grass as the Cubs, but to stand tall in his old age, with healthy working legs and catching the ball to get the third out in the bottom of the ninth.
I just visited his grave over the weekend. It's quite funny because there engraved on his stone is a baseball player, literally in this same stance.