Who is Nicky Lopez’s Father?
Nicky Lopez’s Dad is Bob Lopez
Who is Bob Lopez?
Bobby Lopez was a four-year baseball (second base) and football player at Lyons Township High School (defensive back). He played wide receiver with the Glen Ellyn Hawks for three years after graduating from high school.
Bobby Lopez began playing softball with his brother’s team, the Family, in La Grange when he was sixteen. After seeing him play, Mike Spidale persuaded him to join the Stooges as a third baseman.
The Jaw Jackers in Cicero, the Titans with Jerry Main, and then Lenny Nuzzo on the Blues were the next stops.
When Angelo Alesia asked him to play center field for the Whips, he stepped up to the “big leagues.” After joining Frank Holen’s Taggers, he went on to play for Dick Cooper and Meadows.
While playing for Meadows, he was approached by Rich Melman, and he soon joined Melman and Lettuce.
He played in four ASA Nationals (they finished second in 1998), one USSSA Nationals, and four Forest Park No Gloves Nationals.
Bobby played for Mike North and Licorice after Melman retired from the game, helping them win the ASA championships in 2000 and 2002, as well as the No Glove Nationals in 2002.
In 1998, he was named the Mount Prospect Nationals’ batting champion, and in 1992, he won two home run titles.
At Forest Park in 1993, he was co-MVP with Frank Mustari, and at the 1998 Nationals, he was solo-MVP. In 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003, he was an ASA First Team All-American, and in 1994, he was a USSSA All-American.
Bobby lives in Bolingbrook, Illinois, with his twenty-five-year-old wife, Angela.
