miles from nationals park tucked away in a neighborhood is the house where jim riggelman's baseball eams were born. it was a happy childhood, playing ball at the local parks. jim's mother, virginia, remembers a voice so obsessed with baseball, he didn't want to do anything else. >> we would go on vacation, he would stay with some of the neighbors, because he didn't want to miss his baseball. practice or games or whatever. and he loved that he played all the time. and he would ask me every day, you think it will be raining tomorrow? you think -- so like i was a weather man. >> reporter: jim riggelman hardly remembers his real father, charles, a sergeant in world war ii. who died of lung cancer at walter reid medical center when jim was just 2 years old. charles is buried at arlington national cemetery. where jim and his brother visited often growing up. it was jim riggelman's stepfather, bill hardster, who introduced him to the game of baseball. >> he loved the senators, and had his tran sister radio, and he would sit down on the back porch and introduced me to the game by his love fo