SI Vault: Second Effort: Craig Biggio got better after changing positions - SI.com
The Hall of Fame's Class of 2015—Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz—will be inducted in Cooperstown on Sunday, July 26, and in their honor, we're reaching into the SI Vault for features on these all-time greats. Today's pick: Michael Bamberger's April 1, 1996 feature story on Biggio, who was in the midst of a run in which he made seven All-Star teams in eight seasons. Craig Biggio leads the sort of idealized life that one associates with black-and-white TV. He calls his father-in-law Dad. ) Craig and Patty have two young boys, Conor, 3, and Cavan, 11 months, who bounce around happily in the morning and take long naps in the afternoon. The house itself—in the charming, sea-battered town of Spring Lake, on the New Jersey shore—is a timeless, fixed-up beauty with an appropriate name, Home Plate, a view of the ocean and the comforting proximity of millionaires. The Biggios are doing all right themselves: Over the winter, Craig, a sure-handed–free-agent second baseman with light feet and a peppy bat, agreed to stay with the Houston Astros for at least another four years, for at least $20 million. In the off-season, Biggio is home most nights for dinner. At Joseph's, the regulars still actually talk baseball, mostly New York Yankees baseball. " Joseph asked one morning in January. Going out to the Island," Biggio answered. Source: www.si.com
