‘It’s everything’: Whitecaps season ticket holder on love of opening day [Video]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Baseball is back on the brain for Whitecaps fans in West Michigan, including Scott Byrne.

The Grand Rapids financial planner fell in love with the sport as a boy.

“I’ve never really missed a season of baseball since I was four years old,” Byrne told FOX 17 News. “’72 Tigers was my first team. I was about six years old and watching them and I remember crying when they lost.”

Byrne recalls watching games with his dad at Sullivan Field and was thrilled when the Whitecaps came to town.

Now a father himself, Byrne has coached his son in Little League and passed on his love of the sport.

“He kind of grew up there. We put him in the stroller, and we’d get seats on the top row and park the stroller,” Byrne said. “He’s been there since he didn’t even know it.”

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