Wilson shares irreverent slices of the baseball life, from non sequiturs ("I really, really enjoy brunch") to cheeky insights from his father while watching the N.L. playoffs ("Bochy's head is the size of two heads! — dad").
But the child wouldn't have a roof over his head if Dad weren't busy designing gyroscopes to guide weapons of mass destruction.
I first took to the boards as a shepherd in a primary school nativity play where, aged six, I staggered around gaping upwards at a non-existent star with a teatowel on my head; my dad, in his own words, "laughed so much I nearly fell off the bench".
Although he's briefly cool — "country boys" are beaten around the head by dads or priests, but usually aren't attacked by knives — the favor passes, and the teasing begins.
Another shows a little girl picking her nose with the heading "Best Dad in the World" and the caption: "Like all daughters, she was very grateful in later life for the social skills she had learned from watching her dad".
And yes, the percentage of households with minor children that are headed by dads is still small -- only 8percentt of all US households at last count.
Sam fell and smashed his head bad, but Dad said he had a second skull!
About her father, she said: "I'm becoming obsessed with his presence in my head, because my dad adored theater.
Except for his ears sticking out from his round head, just like Dad's, he didn't look like anyone in our family.
I came to Yale as a freshman in the fall of 2010 with two big uncertainties hanging over my head: whether my dad would get elected to the senate in November, and whether I'd ever work up the courage to come out of the closet.
