Cubs pitcher’s dad will travel to every game his son starts after beating terminal cancer diagnosis | KTAB

CHICAGO (WGN) – When Trevor Williams signed with the Chicago Cubs this offseason, it was a dream come true — for his dad.

“I’m somewhat league dad, what am I doing right here with a son on the workforce,” joked Richard Williams exterior of Wrigley Discipline.

Richard Williams grew up on the South Aspect, taking the L to Wrigley as a teen.

“I got here out right here loads. I used to be only a loopy Cubs fan,” he stated.

Williams even labored at Wrigley from 1970 to 1974 as an usher, and nonetheless has his uniform.

He joined the Marine Corps and settled in San Diego, the place Trevor was born 29 years in the past. Via highschool, faculty, then the professionals, Richard was at all times watching and at all times retaining rating.

“I feel he’s saved rating since I used to be in T-ball,” famous Trevor. “He’s obtained scorebooks going again years. The consistency that he has proven, displaying as much as video games, is one thing I don’t take with no consideration.”

However within the fall of 2015, with Trevor in Triple-A, Richard wasn’t positive how for much longer he’d be capable of present up. Recognized with double B-cell lymphoma, Richard was given 60-90 days to dwell. He went by way of months of in-patient chemo and radiation.

“I simply wished to make it to Thanksgiving that 12 months, not to mention spring coaching or anything,” he remembers.

One 12 months later, on September 7, 2016, he was within the stands in Pittsburgh for Trevor’s Main League debut.

“I’m the luckiest man alive,” remarked Richard. “I watch the dawn and I wink on the sundown. I take advantage of the ‘Recreation of Thrones’ reference after I wink at that sundown. ‘Not immediately. God of Demise, you didn’t get me immediately.’”

Greater than 5 years after defying his prognosis, Richard by no means desires to overlook one other probability to maintain rating for his son.

“I give up making an attempt to be the richest man within the cemetery,” he stated.

Williams bought an residence constructing so he might pay to comply with Trevor across the nation.

“I’m going watch Trevor pitch each sport this 12 months that he pitches. Thirty to thirty-one begins, I’m going to go to all of them. I’m going to be there. I wish to be there. I don’t know the way lengthy he’s going to pitch. I don’t know if immediately’s his final day, however I wish to be there watching him pitch his final pitch. Hopefully, God prepared, I’ll be there.”

For Trevor to take the mound for his dad’s childhood workforce makes each scorebook he retains much more particular.

“They’ve been wanting ahead to this second for a very long time — actually from the day that there was curiosity that there was going to be a chance to doubtlessly placed on the Cubs’ uniform,” Trevor defined. “It’s only a actually particular second for my household and I, we’re grateful they had been capable of be within the stands. They’re my rocks they usually’re one thing I actually cherish.”