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...died eight hours after being born. His brother Kenneth was born a decade later. So Wynn, a child his mother describes as precocious and sometimes devilish, was not just an ordinary firstborn: he was a sacred child. Meanwhile his father, Michael, was often away from their home in Utica, New York, supervising bingo parlors he owned in three states. "Steve ruled the roost," says Wynn's wife Elaine. "Mike was not home, meaning that there was no paternal supervision. Zelma was a pussycat. She didn't have the -- I don't want to say the knowledge or instincts -- but maybe...
...nice for us to do," Petrovek, now the general manager of the AHL's Utica Devils, recalled, "though I think we caught them [Team USA] early in the year...
...need a nest egg in this business," says Bruce Daniels, a lead, "so you can survive while you're out trying to get . . ." -- his voice deepens and Tivoli lights blink on in his eyes -- "that starring role." Meanwhile, they double up at hotels to save money. Back in Utica (it was definitely Utica), several musicians missed the bus and had to pay their own fare to Indianapolis; they lived four to a room for the next month. Not only is the pay good but there is no time to spend it. On a schedule of up to eight shows...
...deal was sealed on the telephone. Greg Larson, who is based in Jacksonville, learned that the Utica Blue Sox team , in the Class A New York- Penn League, was for sale for $70,000. The seller required a swift decision. Larson called his colleague, Bob Fowler, in Orlando. Fowler said, "Hell yes, we'll buy it." Today Fowler recollects, "In ten minutes, overcome by the adventure, we had done...
...finding partners who would purchase $5,000 pieces of the action. Larson sold his lifelong collection of baseball cards, which numbered nearly 300,000, keeping only those of the great Eddie Mathews because "he was my man." Soon after the agreement was reached, they went to Utica where, in a wind-driven icy rain, their spirits sank...