I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.
“My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.”