Cubs' Jameson Taillon honors family history with return to Team Canada for WBC

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — At 8 years old, Jameson Taillon wasn’t exactly thrilled to be trapped at a table listening to his grand-mother’s tales of World War II. She talked about the war all the time, but he didn’t yet have enough understanding of the world to appreciate what his grandparents went through to escape Hungary.

Now 34, Taillon cherishes the memories of those conversations with his grandmother, Agnes Kormendy, and the recollections she also wrote down in a book — a preservation of family...