Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.

Both Roxy and Richard were major supporters of the construction of The Pepper Family Hospice Home and Center in Barrington, IL. Roxy loved Barrington and was an integral part of the community.

He insisted that it wasn’t a dig at the library, which has a five-star rating from the Illinois Library Association and he considers almost universally beloved. “It’s a long process (and) a lot of ...