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.

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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin