Today would have been Ernie Banks 92nd birthday if he had made it. But he didn’t. He died in a Chicago hospital on January 23, 2014. When news of his passing came it was a shock to many Cubs fans . It probably shouldn’t have. After all he was nearly 84 years old. It’s just that he seemed so ever youthful, not just in those memory pictures we had in our head of his days on the diamond, but in the frequent glimpses we would get of him on TV at fan events or in interviews. No matter how gray or sparse his hair became, how lined that lean face, he seemed boyish, bursting with enthusiasm and, yes, ready to play two. Banks was, bar none, the most beloved player in the long history of the Chicago National League franchise. ...