7128588923.jpg &&& SAGINAW — When the Fort Worth Cats baseball team was resurrected in 2001, John A. Compton couldn’t have been happier.Mr. Compton was then in his late 60s, and the Cats were like a fountain of youth, allowing him to see minor league baseball games as he had as a boy in the 1940s and ’50s."When the Cats came back, it was like he was a kid again," said Douglass Compton, one of Mr. Compton’s four children.Mr. Compton, a former police officer, airline manager and National Guardsman, died Saturday in a Fort Worth hospital, about three days after suffering a massive stroke, relatives said. He was 73."He was the reason I wanted to grow up and be a dad," Douglass Compton said. "He was my inspiration. The only thing I ever wanted to do was make him proud."A Fort Worth native, Mr. Compton attended Trimble Tech High School. He was a police officer in North Richland Hills and Hurst in the 1960s and served as a sergeant in the Texas National Guard. He was in his 30s when he earned an associate degree in management and worked as a manager for The Western Company of North America, Braniff and American Airlines. He retired from American.For the last 23 years he had operated CC Antiques in Azle.Mr. Compton had told stories about seeing the Cats as a boy, said Douglass Compton, of Fort Worth."For a quarter you could get into the games," Douglass Compton said. Beverly Compton, Mr. Compton’s wife of 38 years, said that he loved to travel and that the couple visited Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and Britain.He was a great family man and the go-to person for advice, she said. "He was probably the best man in the world. They don’t make them like that anymore," she said. "He was very logical. All of the kids as grown-ups come to him for advice."Becky Raley, also of Fort Worth, said she will always remember her father’s ability to give a sound take on things."He always listened to me," she said. "As a teenager, it was really hard to talk to somebody. I don’t know where I’d be without his advice. He was always there to guide me and help me with my problems."Other survivors include son John Mays of California, daughter Vicki Berginer of Fort Worth, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral