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From a very early age I embraced the great games of baseball, basketball and football. My first recollection of my interest is of my father explaining the game of football in 1966 as we watched a Washington Redskin rout of the New York Giants 72-41. I did not realize as a six year-old that I had just witnessed the largest scoring game between two teams--a record that remains today. My indoctrination continued shortly thereafter as my father took me to my first live sporting event at Yankee stadium where I witnessed an extra inning baseball game featuring home runs by Frank and Brooks Robinson as well as my father's hero Mickey Mantle in a 2-1 Baltimore Orioles victory over the Yankees. Speaking of heroes, my father and I were both shocked when my father's own name was echoed by Bob Sheppard on the Yankee Stadium loudspeaker--for a split second I thought my father was about to bat for the Yankees. It turned out his car was broken into and police were searching for him. In any event, I..

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