Milwaukee Brewers Pay Tribute to 8-Year-Old Cooper Roberts Paralyzed in Highland Park Shooting
Photo: Morry Gash/AP Photo The Milwaukee Brewers are stepping up to the plate and helping an 8-year-old boy who wasseriously woundedin theJuly 4 mass shootingin Highland Park, Illinois. The Brewers hung a No. 22 jersey bearing Cooper Roberts' last name in the home dugout at American Family Field during their three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates this weekend after theylearned through reportingthat he’s a major Brewers fan. Brewers manager Craig Counsell said Friday that he hoped the team’s gesture “can make one part of the day for [Cooper and the Roberts family] a little bit better,” in the wake of the shooting, which left Cooper with a severed spinal cord after he was shot in the chest....