Once in a while, Justin Steele’s mom likes to remind her son of the inauspicious beginnings of his baseball career, pulling out pictures of him playing T-ball at about four years old. Well, playing is an overstatement.
“I’m kicking ant [hills] over and chasing butterflies,” Steele said in a conversation with the Sun-Times at the end of the season. “So it’s kind of funny looking back on it now.”
