Don’t Cry, Mr. Ogre

What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the student the man ponders how to make it up to the man whom he once coached

• baseball
• based on short story
• japanese man
• nickname in title
• terminal disease