100-year-old father still cheers on son, 62, at softball games

NORCROSS - The lone fan in the bleachers wears a plaid shirt, striped britches hiked up high and polished penny loafers - the quintessential grandpa suit. Louis Herrig came to this Norcross ballfield to watch his son play, an activity that dates back to the Eisenhower Administration. It comforts his son, Bruce Herrig, 62, to know dad, now a century old, can not only make the game, but can drive himself here. Lucky is the sexagenarian who looks over his shoulder in the on-deck circle and sees what's always been there, his father.

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Rewind 45 years and there's Louis, parked in his 1959 Oldsmobile 88 near the third-base dugout, waving to Bruce, then a sluggin' sophomore at the Marist School. More...