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But slowly, his company began requiring employees to come back into the office — first for two days a week, then three, then four. With so many people commuting to work in their cars, his trip from his home in Mamaroneck, New York, to the middle of Long Island could stretch to two hours each way, leaving him little time for his pastimes.

“We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion, and by men in striped uniform. We didn’t know it at the time, but the men in uniform were the Jews who were brought there before us. They were called ‘Kanada,’ which I found out later. Their job was to empty the train. One of those men saved my life,” she said in 1990.

A 29-year-old man had been driving a Polaris Slingshot AutoCycle — a low-riding vehicle that combines aspects of a motorcycle and an automobile, such as two seats, a steering wheel and seat belts, but no roof or air bags, according to Polaris — around 2:40 a.m. in the 400 block of South Homan Avenue in Homan Square on the West Side, police said.

“My first game with the Cubans, for some reason Minnie came to the game and couldn’t find his uniform,” Teasley said with a laugh during a phone interview. “They had to take someone’s uniform so he could play, because he was the star. I guess you know whose uniform they took. My first day, I was like, ‘How about this?’ I never did find out what happened to his uniform.”