While his teammates fanned out across local shopping malls, movie theaters, restaurants and leather Barcaloungers on their day off Thursday, Braden Looper was in Granite, Okla., where he attended the funeral for his 84-year-old grandfather, LaVerne Looper. "Essentially, he was my father, he was the guy who got me started in baseball," said Looper, who left the park with a victory, a game ball and a special memory.