South Siders, a collection of favorite columns that individually appeared in papers all across the country, is a guided tour of McGrath's Midwest, where 16 inch softball played barehanded by men past their prime, is more popular than the Superbowl; where funeral luncheons are indistinguishable from wedding receptions; where marriage is still till death do us part (with Illinois boasting the country's lowest divorce rate); where parents still discipline...