On this Father's Day, as we celebrate the love and dedication of fathers everywhere, the baseball world also pays tribute to fatherhood and what it has meant in the lives of big league ballplayers and their families.

Female authority had become entangled with the pain of his father’s absence. Between appointments, Moynihan was “literally overwhelmed by simple tender childish emotions” when he saw fathers and children together.

With Father’s Day coming up Sunday, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a man. Not in the way culture often sells us manhood — as dominance, detachment or self-interest — but as duty, humility and endurance.