Kirk Gibson: Hockey Player?

It seems timely to share several anecdotes about the years that Kirk Gibson and I, with a select group of other great guys, played hockey together on Thursday nights at a local ice arena in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Gibson was as tenacious on the ice as he was on the diamond. Gibson recently stepped down as a television baseball analyst for the Detroit Tigers to focus on helping others battle the same disease that he has battled for 10 years: Parkinson’s. [email protected] www.byroncopley.com Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin