Wallace Wade Moon, born 4/3/1930 in Bay Arkansas, was the son of Henry Albert Moon and the former Margie Leona Vernon. He was the second of their three children. Bay is a swampy hamlet by some railroad tracks. Henry was a factory worker who later became mayor of Bay. Henry would read every sports page he could get his hands on. Wally was named after Alabama football coach, Wallace Wade. Alabama had won the Rose Bowl. In his early childhood, Moon was called ” Booger “, because he was afraid of the ” Booger Man”.
Wally and his brother, David, would use an empty Pet milk can as a ball and hit it with a bat made by their father.