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...grew up following my dad [legendary broadcaster Jack Buck] around. As a kid, I couldn't get enough of the ballpark. I couldn't get enough of traveling with him or being around a major-league team. It's always been kind of a part of my DNA. I don't know that I've ever looked at baseball like a purely casual fan. That's just realistic when you grow up with it putting food on your table, and with it taking your dad out of town...
...book took place over 10 days in a basement apartment on the South Side of Chicago. I was just pulling these stories from his childhood out of him. It was a very emotional process - he would break down crying, telling me about his mother going crazy and his dad abandoning him. That's when the book sort of took a different direction. Yes, it's a book about counterfeiting, but then I started seeing it as the story of a man and his life, and how those things were interwoven...
Steves first went to Europe in 1969 at age 14 with his mom and dad, a Seattle-area importer of pianos who made trips to Germany and Austria to survey various makes and models. After a few visits, Steves noticed the carefree teenage backpackers at the train stations and wanted to join the fun. "I saw all these kids and thought, Hey, no parents," he says. "And there I was, at 16, still on my mom's passport." As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he began backpacking in Europe every summer. Within a few years, he started...
...Sunday, the New York Times did just that, with a story headlined "If They Can Find Time for a Date Night ..." The gist: If the Obamas - with Mom committed to her various causes and Dad trying to save the free world - can still find time for each other, hey, lame husband sitting on the couch watching sports, time to step it up. The writer suggests that the President has placed an "elbow in the ribs of husbands," while Jon Stewart has joked, "Take it down a notch, dude." (See pictures of the Obamas dancing on Inauguration Night...
...months later, Eyeworks made Half Ton Dad, about the struggles of Kenneth Brumley, a 1,035-lb. (469 kg) 40-year-old father of four, also from Texas, who, unlike Williams, survived well past his bypass surgery. As the Channel 4 promotional material put it: "Half Ton Dad is the story of a father, his family and a country which currently has 15 million morbidly obese citizens...