And some who know him say one of his secret weapons is his great aunt, Sister Donna Anthony, OSF, a 90-year-old nun who lives in Lewiston and prays for her favorite slugger every day.

There is a quote on the wall at Tom and Andy Naum’s library which sums up their relationship with their house at 1664 South Ivy Trail in Baldwinsville’s Seneca Estates neighborhood. “While Eeyore ...