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I don’t know when and how I shifted my allegiance from the Dodgers to the Mets.    My first memories of baseball all involve the Brooklyn Dodgers.  My mother talked about them. My grandfather talked about them.  My grandmother talked about them.  I learned, through them, all about Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Pistol Pete Reiser…

After my bar mitzvah my parents gave the choice between getting a new bicycle or a strat-o-matic baseball game.   I was perfectly content, as I recall with the bike I already had and opted for strat-o-matic. For those of you who don’t know, strat-o-matic is a game which comes with game cards for each player…

Two years ago my nephew Stephen passed away. I always regretted not expressing my thoughts about my nephew at his funeral.  The truth is that I wrote most of these words the day before we buried my nephew.  For some stupid reason I felt unqualified to give any remarks at Stephen’s funeral given the fact…

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In December 2013 my dear friend, Stephen Cambria passed. Stephen and I first became friends at “SUNY-Binghamton”(now known as Binghamton University) in the Spring Of 1981.  We both resided in the same dorm though on different floors.  While I had known of Steve since freshman year, I didn’t actually meet him until the spring of…