The Face Of The Team, Alone

Lane DeGregory: ST. PETERSBURG — Four hours before Monday’s first pitch, as the ballplayers were filing into Tropicana Field and bartenders were tapping kegs for the fans and bloggers were betting that night — surely — the Rays would clinch a playoff spot, the man who brought Major League Baseball to Tampa Bay sat a few blocks away.

Alone.

In the back of Haslam’s bookstore.

Reading his memoir.