Cal State Fullerton’s Mildred García: Everyone deserves a ‘next pitch’

Raised by a single mother of seven who never had the luxury of taking a sick day from her job in the factories, I inherited both a strong immune system and a stubborn penchant for working through the rare times when I actually am under the weather.
So when I came down with the flu last month on the eve of the 2017 Athletics Hall of Fame induction dinner — an event at which I was scheduled to speak — I thought nothing of it. “I’ll power through,” I wheezed to my doct