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I have been watching the Chicago Cubs play ball since the 1951 season. My mom would tell me how she put me in a contraption called “Johnny Jump-up” and set me in front of our Emerson black and white television set, with its 12 inch (diagonal) screen.
Now admittedly I wasn’t really fan for the first couple years but my mother assured me by the time I was three I knew my favorite player Hank Sauer was number nine and I would get excited whenever he was up to bat.