NEWSLETTER (BOBBY GRAZ)*

Bobby & Gloria at Anthony’s Wedding

BOBBY GRAZ

PERSONAL INFO:

NAME: Bobby Grazioso

WWBA TEAM: Gold Coast Manatees

YEARS IN WWBA: 22

HOW OLD ARE YOU? 64

FAMILY MEMBERS: Brother in Glen Cove, Long Island and the Mondello’s (*)

LINE OF WORK: paroled oops, I mean retired, from Postal Service

HOBBIES: Golf, WWBA and suffering with my New York Jets!

FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM & WHY

Pittsburgh Pirates. Was an early Mets Fan until Citi-Bank got naming rights to new Mets ballpark. Boom all my Met stuff went to Anthony Mondello. Always was a closet Pirates fan and when Gloria came along ( from Pittsburgh) easy move for me. Now I suffer with two losers Jets and Pirates.

FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER & WHY

It was Keith Hernandez until his drug habit. Early in my life my cousin was a Dodgers fan and I loved their firstbaseman, Wes Parker

FAVORITE BASEBALL MEMORY

Seeing PNC park in Pittsburgh for the 1^st time.

1ST MLB GAME YOU ATTENDED & WHEN

I was taken to see the friggin’ Yankees play Baltimore. I was young and had no say.

HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE WWBA? In 1999 I was in a hockey league with one of the “Original Founding Fathers”, with Ken Hand, of the WWBA, Steve Grapstul, and he twisted my arm …so you guys can blame him.

WHAT OTHER LEAGUES DO YOU PLAY IN. None

WHAT YOU LIKE /DISLIKE ABOUT DMB

I’ll keep that to my self

OTHER PRO SPORTS YOU ENJOY WATCHING

Today, not many. Used to watch golf but haven’t watched in 5 years, you can fill in the blanks. Now days I watch every Pirate game and listen to Jets and Islanders on internet

YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE

It’s a Wonderful Life. Stop laughing &

Every year at Christmas time I sit and watch Frosty the Snowman.

THE TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LIKE

Only early Music.

#1 Eric Clapton

2# Beatles and

#3 all the Blues greats

THE BEST BOOK YOU EVER READ

Harvey Penick’s - Little Red Book

ANY PERSON LIVING OR DEAD YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET & WHY?:

My two girls! Gloria and Rockie, our dachshund. Lost both to long battle with Cancer

YOUR WORDS TO LIVE BY

“ I don’t have much but some people seem to like having me around.”

(*)= Yes , Bobby and I have been friends for 20+ years and he still f's up my last name.