When Walt "No Neck" Williams was playing for the White Sox inthe early 1970s and living on the South Side, he'd regularly walk bya house in his neighborhood where a small boy would be playing catchon the lawn with his father. The lad would tell Williams he was hisfavorite player and would recite that familiar boyhood dream of oneday being a baseball player himself.
Nearly 20 years later, the storybook ending comes in.
Williams, now a coach for the Tulsa Drillers of the Class AATexas League, was in Sarasota in March when the Rangers' farm teamwas preparing for a spring training game against the Sox Class AAteam. A young man in a Sox uniform approached him. "I'm sure youdon't remember me," said Paul Fuller, 23, now a catcher with the Sox'Class A Sarasota franchise in the Florida State League. "But I'm theboy who lived near you when you were with the White Sox and playedcatch when you used to walk by."
Williams did remember Fuller, a Leo graduate who is hoping tosee the rest of his childhood fantasy come true.
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