>>>>>>USMC 8 years. 5/84 - 4/92
>>>>>>Operation Desert Storm - 1 year
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>>>>>It Ain't Bragging If You CAN Do It :o)
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>>>>Originally said by St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean, I believe.
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>>>>He had a brother named Paul who was nicknamed Daffy and also pitched for the Cardinals. You could look it up, in the words of another of baseball's colorful characters, Casey Stengel.
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>>>I sat with him (Casey Stengel) during one of the Mets world series games in '69 (I think thats the year) when I was a kid. Very funny guy! He spent most of the game telling me off-color stories about the players and the team.
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>>I very much envy you your baseball experiences. When I discovered baseball around age 10 (my family was not athletically inclined, at all), I proceeded to read every book the local library had on the subject, other than the "how to" books. I loved all the stories of the players.
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>>Tamar
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>I grew up a hockey fan (Bruins of the late 60s and 70s). Baseball was a distant second as a sport to me, but my uncle was the commissioner at the time and I wound up going to (not willingly sometimes) an awful lot of games including most world series in the 70s. Best thing for me was meeting a lot of interesting people. I met lots of past and then current players, owners, sportscasters, each of the living presidents of the time (I sat with Nixon through a game - he made sure the secret service got my hot dogs right), football players(?), you name it.
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>I still wished my uncle was hockey commissioner instead... :(

I remembered your having mentioned the relationship before. What an opportunity, even if you did prefer hockey.

Tamar