A pitch for life: Former Sox prospect Montalbano battles cancer

Montalbano looks through scrapbooks of his career at his mother's at his family's Westborough home in 2006. He is a man without bitterness. 'Crying? I've done it,' he says. 'It's overrated.'
Montalbano looks through scrapbooks of his career at his mother's at his family's Westborough home in 2006. He is a man without bitterness. "Crying? I've done it," he says. "It's overrated."
(Globe Staff Photo / Stan Grossfeld)