Steve Trout was a major league baseball pitcher during the 1980s. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ...
He was son of former major league pitcher Paul "Dizzy" Trout. His nickname was the fairly obvious "Rainbow", but he displayed a little "dizziness" of his own from time to time, developing a reputation for his offbeat personality.
He was one of the strong starting pitchers on the storied Cubs team of 1984, which won their division title after suffering a 39-year post-season drought. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In their own way, the trout had been telling me that they were having trouble with the environment I put them in.
No matter how strong and healthy the trout were when I put them in the pond, unless I was willing to change the environment, taking their needs into consideration, I was doomed to lose them.
Steve Long-Nguyen Robbins, Ph.D. is the Director of the Woodrick Institute for the Study of Racism and Diversity at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI.