1. Age:  almost 40

2. City in which you currently live: Bloomsburg, the only “town” in Pennsylvania

3. Hometown:  Belmar, New Jersey (don’t let out I’m from Jersey, please)

4. Occupation:  Chemist, currently teaching public high school

5. Single/Married:  Married, happily

6. Kids (and ages):  Marty 9, Evan 8, and Amelia 4

7. Years playing APBA:  25 

8. How many APBA games do you roll per year:  more than 100, less than 2000

9. Favorite Baseball team and why (current):  The Phillies, I have a soft-spot for losers

10. Favorite Baseball team and why (all-time):  I ran home from school to watch the ’69 Mets in the World Series (ah, day World Series!)….they were my first team I followed

11. Favorite Baseball player and why (current):  Now that Rico Brogna’s retired?  Probably Todd Pratt.  You can tell the guy just loves doing what he’s doing.  How many people can say that.  Some New Yorkers got pissed off when he hugged Ventura after his grand-slam single, I thought it was awesome.  

12. Favorite Baseball player and why (all-time): Carlton Fisk, he was tough and straight-shooting

13. Favorite Baseball stadium (current): live baseball anywhere on a comfortable afternoon or evening rocks anywhere, although Davenport’s John O’Donnell Stadium, sitting on the Mississippi River with the barges moving by, keeping score with a beautiful young woman certainly will always have a soft spot in my heart

14. List of Major League Baseball stadiums you’ve been to:  Fenway, Shea, Yankee, Veterans, Camden, Three Rivers and PNC, old Municple, Riverfront, Tiger, whatever old Brewers park was called, Wrigley, Cominsky I and II, Royals, Ballpark at Arlington, Astrodome, Seattle’s crappy-place-to-watch-baseball-game Kingdome

15. Favorite College Team: Iowa Hawkeyes (part of the marriage vows)

16. Non-APBA hobbies: doing things with family, church (tough calling that a hobby), officer for local fire company, playing guitar/singing

17. If I could play MLB, what position would I play: easy….I always wanted to roam Shea’s center field, but I was all field and speed, little hit (wait, Doug Glanville made it; that’s not fair!)

18. Most Memorable APBA Moment (sentences/paragraphs OK here):  My first season in the mid-seventies.  I was really sick and couldn’t go outside for months.  My brother Craig, my friend Walter Hamm, and myself especially must have rolled hundreds of games those weeks.  Relationships are born and strengthened through some kind of adversity- I will always love APBA for getting me through that summer.

19. If you had a chance to have dinner with any baseball player that ever lived, who would that be?   Christy Mattewson, he was a Christian gentleman who had a NASTY arsenal who grew up where I am now living- we could talk baseball, God, and geography

20. General Comments (Do you like the DH? Do you like interleague play? Have you ever rolled any No Hitters or Perfect games? Ever end a game in a “Walk Off Home Run?)  Back in the 90’s somewhere, Jamie Navarro was carded a C, not even a Z if I remember correctly.  He threw a perfect game for me in a replay of that season!  I can’t find the scoresheet for the game right now, so I can’t give you the details, but he did it.  I also have had probably 7 or 8 no-hitters.