DETROIT — The day Nic Enright underwent a biopsy to officially confirm his diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in December 2022, his wife, Erin, raced home from her job as a physical education teacher.
Erin approached the train tracks that sit five minutes from their home in Rocky Mount, Va. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the tracks present nothing more than a stomach-jolting speed bump. Of course, on that wretched day, she had to wait. As Erin sat and watched the train cars chug along, she bawled.
Twenty-nine months ago, a weekend like this seemed impossible.
On Friday night in Columbus, Enright told Erin and his parents to meet him at an atypical ballpark rendezvous point after the game. He emerged with an unmistakable grin and asked his family if they wanted to take a trip to Detroit, where the Cleveland Guardians were playing a four-game series.
Finally, some happy tears. Finally, those haunting memories could fade into the past.
“That feeling right there,” Enright said, “the look on their faces and just to see the emotion wash over and the realization of what is happening was special for me.”
There were sleep-filled afternoons, when cancer treatments sapped him of his energy and rendered him too weak to play catch. There were sleepless nights when a body pumped full…
