Private Dave Surplis

Surplis is the second youngest in the squad, but the biggest baseball fan in the entire Allied Army. He is eighteen and lives in Pilsen, a neighborhood in the lower west side of Chicago known best for bad plumbing and Cholera. Surplis and his two older brothers, who share an equal love of baseball, would spend weeknights and weekends rounding up the local neighborhood kids to play a game in a nearby empty lot.

Surplis picked up a job with his brothers at the rail yard where they loaded supplies into box cars for 10 hours a day. The size and scale of the yard is such that they often never saw their boss and could do whatever they wanted. From time to time, when they were really cooking with gas, he and his brothers would sneak out to catch a White Sox day game at Comiskey Park.

His biggest aspiration is to move out from his parent’s place to an apartment near the ballpark.