Dunn Deal: Remembering a baseball coach for the ages

During a five-year period when our son, Julian, was seriously ill, our friend and neighbor John Altobelli would often stop by our home and ask what he could do to help, and sometimes drop off small baseball gifts for our oldest son, Nolan.“Alto” was first a competitor on the baseball field, then a friend as our lives merged in a coach/sportswriter relationship, and then as neighbors. Alto moved back into the neighborhood in which he was raised, and the Altobelli family was well-known