NEWSLETTER (MIKE)*

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MIKE PARSONS

PERSONAL INFO:

NAME: Michael Parsons

WWBA TEAM: Crystal City Cruisers

YEARS IN WWBA: Starting third season

HOW OLD ARE YOU? Going to be 50 in February

FAMILY MEMBERS: Wife Lisa, also have a younger brother

LINE OF WORK: Sports Information Director, Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, FL

HOBBIES: Sports junkie, reading

FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM & WHY: NY Yankees, from upstate New York and father took me to games as a youth

FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER & WHY: Donnie Baseball – Don Mattingly – grew up in time when he was about the lone Yankee star and has always been my guy

FAVORITE BASEBALL MEMORY: Actually was in attendance as Andy Hawkins threw a no-hitter for Yankees – and lost, July 1, 1990! It was part of high school graduation trip … also covered the inaugural Tampa Bay Devil Rays game, 1998!

1ST MLB GAME YOU ATTENDED & WHEN: Probably six or seven years old at old Yankee Stadium … not sure when exactly

HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE WWBA? Chris Bonanno introduced me to it after we were in a scoresheet league together

WHAT OTHER LEAGUES DO YOU PLAY IN: Am in a salary cap league – ABL and also a friend league

WHAT YOU LIKE /DISLIKE ABOUT DMB: I love the fact we can play actual games and affect the outcome – do not like

OTHER PRO SPORTS YOU ENJOY WATCHING: Like all sports, but always been an auto racing fan as well as NFL

YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE: Tombstone – “ I’ll be your huckleberry! “

THE TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LIKE I like just about everything but lean toward country most of time these days

THE BEST BOOK YOU EVER READ Huckleberry Finn and Old Man and the Sea … grew up in same area as Mark Twain and then later in life have become fan of Ernest Hemingway

ANY PERSON LIVING OR DEAD YOU WOULD LIKE TO MEET & WHY?: Great question …. Mark Twain, Mickey Mantle

YOUR WORDS TO LIVE BY: “Everything happens for a reason – if it is meant to be, it will be!”