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Baseball, Music, Writing, My Guitars, My Grandkids, My Wife

I know too much about ...

worthless stuff

My parents always told me ...

To get out of the bathroom.

My childhood ambition ...

Become a Priest. I was a better shortstop though.

My favorite memory ...

My first game at Yankee Stadium.

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I won a tremendous load of toner on the Price is Right.

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Watching Monk reruns, Listening to the Grateful Dead, Reading my new Novell

My first job ...

Drummer in a garage band.

My best moment ...

Still waiting

My inspiration ...

Jerry Garcia/Mickey Mantle

Politics, News & Issues > Baseball News & Opinion What are fan expectations during MLB's spring training?

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As a kid growing up in the black and white era of Yankee baseball, I remember the films they showed of players reporting to Spring Training. Yogi, Whitey, Elston Howard, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle running in full dress uniforms out of that small boat house on the lake in Fort Lauderdale was all I knew about the event back then. It was a bunch of my childhood heroes getting ready to play the boy's game I knew and loved. In a word, it was perfect. As I got older, I always vowed that I would someday make the trip down to see a Spring Training game or two. But the rigors of the everyday gri...

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