Umpire, coach, athletic director, broadcaster and player, Casavant’s stories carry on in the lives of those he connected with for more than half a century.

A grateful salute to the contributions of the late Joseph Brennan, Bruce Reeves, Louis Scolnick and Ed Boucher.

Gill, a Lufkin native, connected with his cousin Benjamin Toney for the first time in 2012, it marked the start of a ...