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Chicago Sun-Times
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Mitch Dudek

Mike Perricone, Sun-Times Blackhawks reporter who gave it up to be a stay-at-home dad, dies at 72

Mike Perricone covered the Blackhawks for 12 years until giving up the beat to become a stay-at-home dad. (Provided)

Mike Perricone was a Sun-Times Blackhawks beat reporter during the Denis Savard era before swapping his press pass for a diaper bag when he became a stay-at-home dad — an experience he chronicled in a humorous and touching column for this newspaper.

But the most important thing he ever wrote was an off-the-cuff letter on yellow legal paper.

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