Probably my biggest day was the day my son (Glen Kenneth Hobbie) was born, he says of a late-July day in 1960, when the 24-year old pitcher was scheduled to start against the pennant-bound Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field.

I took my wife to the hospital and then went to the ballpark, he said. I beat Pittsburgh 6-1 in the Game of the Week, and my son was born in the third inning.