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PERSONAL INFO:

NAME:   Jack Brown

WWBA TEAM:  Bathurst Phantoms

YEARS IN WWBA:  This will be my 14th year.

HOW OLD ARE YOU?    75, 76 on December 17, 2022.

FAMILY MEMBERS:      Wife Maureen, Daughters Nancy and Barbara.

LINE OF WORK:     Retired from Teaching (Middle School and High School]

HOBBIES:     Golf, computer and board games, curling, watching my Montreal Canadiens.

FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM & WHY   No favourite team but if I have to pick one it would be the Blue Jays as they are the lone Canadian team.  In another league I am in I own the Colorado Rockies and have access to their rookies so Colorado is a team I keep an eye on.

FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER & WHY   Currently, Mike Trout but my favourite of all time was Sandy Koufax.  If you gave him a run to work with the game was almost in the bag.

FAVORITE BASEBALL MEMORY   Pitching at Jarry Park when I played junior ball in Montreal, the year we won the Montreal and District Junior Baseball championship.  In fact we won that game 5-3 so I can always say I picked up a win at Jarry Park, the original home of the Expos. Also, I pitched for a team called the Douglastown Combines which won the Maritime Intermediate “A” championship in 1964.

1ST MLB GAME YOU ATTENDED & WHEN    In Montreal watching the Cubs against the Expos back in the 80s.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE WWBA?     Reapplied this year after leaving in 2018 but originally joined after I heard about the league from Brent Derbyshire.

WHAT OTHER LEAGUES DO YOU PLAY IN    I play in the Canadian Baseball League which uses APBA.

WHAT YOU LIKE /DISLIKE ABOUT DMB    Likes – ease of play, lots of stats, not a cartoonish game, its simplicity   Dislikes – getting online games to work flawlessly, failure to keep up with rule changes or make any meaningful changes, however blame this on the ownership who prefer to build up their online version.

OTHER PRO SPORTS YOU ENJOY WATCHING    hockey, boxing, Canadian football, some curling.  In fact, I can watch most sports, the exception being basketball.

YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE  12 Angry Men.

THE TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LIKE  Country classics.

THE BEST BOOK YOU EVER READ   The Game by Ken Dryden.

ANY PERSON LIVING OR DEAD YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET & WHY?:   Sandy Koufax and Rocky Marciano because they were the best when they were at their peak.

YOUR WORDS TO LIVE BY   "Short-run pain for long-run gain."