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...Francis is a perennial parochial school kingpin and in Masterson's junior year his squad went 9-0 and was ranked eighth in the nation. Masterson managed to do most of his homework while riding the three subways to school in the morning and another subway to football practice at Prospect Park in Brooklyn in the afternoon...
...Masterson's namesake of television is William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. The original Bat Masterson was a frontier lawman fabled for his panache as a dresser and highstakes gambler. Born in Iroquois County, Ill. in 1853, Masterson became deputy sheriff of notorious Dodge City, followed the gold rush prospectors to Deadwood, S.D., and then went to enforce the law at aptly named Tombstone, Ariz. at the behest of Marshall Wyatt Earp. Masterson closed out his career as a sportswriter for the New York Telegraph...
Harvard's Bat Masterson has also been involved in his share of life or death brushes while working as a lifeguard at Jacob Riis Park in Brooklyn. Guarding the 300,000 Brooklynites who flocked to Riis Park on one single July afternoon last summer can be just as harrowing as fingering a sixshooter at sunset on Dodge City mainstreet. One one occasion, for example, Masterson and three fellow lifeguards had to rescue fifteen drowning teenagers who tried to swim out to a sand...
...Masterson's father is a lawman himself, having served on the New York City police force for 23 years, rising to the rank of sergeant. When Masterson was a junior at St. Francis, he and his father attended the Harvard-Yale Game. "My father asked me 'do you think you could be down there?'," Masterson recalls, "and I really couldn't imagine myself in that position...
Last year, Masterson returned to the Yale Bowl and found himself in just such a position. What's more, he came up with an interception in The Game. If any of his old friends from Rosedale were watching on TV, they must have thought it was a re-run of the Bat Masterson Show...