After Bob Gross hit the ball and ran to first base, he passed out.
His doctors had told him not to do it. He was told to save his flagging energy levels for the important things.
“I knew my softball days were done. I felt like I lost 90 percent of me that day,” said Mr. Gross, who had been an athlete all his life and, as a young man, worked as a bouncer. “When I went to my car, I sat on the edge of the trunk and cried for about a half hour, knowing that I can never do this again.”…