Dakota Bacus photo by Sol Tucker by TalkNats
Living in Moline, Illinois in the off-season puts Dakota Bacus in a league of his own. He is the only active professional baseball player in that town. Moline is on the extreme western side of the state along the Iowa border and 94 miles up US-61 to Dyersville, Iowa where the Field of Dreams was filmed. For Bacus, maybe his life is part Field of Dreams and part from The Rookie.
Bacus was the jock in Moline and Chelsy met Dakota from an adjoining town when they were 15-years old. It’s a small town and fortunate enough to have a baseball team in the high school that has to drive far to play their spring schedule. The pair dated into their college years doing the long distance thing until he was drafted by the Oakland A’s and the pair split up, but never lost touch. Then they got back together a few years later, and as things happen, Chelsy who coincidentally is a labor and delivery nurse, found out she would need a labor and delivery nurse herself. Yes, the couple was expecting. Nearly two years ago, Peyton was born, and Chelsy described her as daddy’s girl. While Peyton cannot grasp everything going on around her with her dad’s baseball career, it has been the talk of the town in Moline. Continue reading
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