A baseball field in Tallahassee connects Cubs’ David Ross and White Sox’ Pedro Grifol

The Cubs’ David Ross is managing across the field from the White Sox’ Pedro Grifol this week. File photo. (Getty)

The history between Cubs manager David Ross and White Sox manager Pedro Grifol can be traced back decades to Florida State’s baseball field in Tallahassee.

“My high school was right on the campus, and so I used to walk over there and meet my dad,” Ross said Wednesday in the Guaranteed Rate Field visitors’ dugout. “He’d plop me down in front of home plate, and I’d watch Pedro catch.”