“It’s sort of crazy — it doesn’t feel like 55 years,” said Bossard, aka “The Sodfather.” “You know how they say that time goes fast as you get older, and boy, it certainly does. I have to be honest with you, I don’t feel the 55th at all. I’ve been blessed. Obviously, God has been so good to me, and it’s got to be a gene thing. There are six of us in my family that have been major-league groundskeepers.
Why the home opener is the ‘biggest day of the year’ for groundskeeper Roger Bossard — aka ‘The Sodfather’ — now in his 55th season with the Chicago White Sox
