I’m just a bit younger than Simmons. No one wanted to be the big baseball star when we were young either. They wanted to be Magic Johnson or Larry Bird or, a bit later, MJ. My god stop this crap.https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/1108761467283742720?s=21 …
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I'll grant that. But I'd argue that Bill's particular experience has him a bit more in the previous generation when it comes to athlete idolization. Almost anyone our age or younger became big sports fans in an era where basketball stars were the biggest national sports stars.
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As I have the advantage of age, I will report that as a boy I wanted to be Duke Snider or Jackie Robinson.
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Not Orr or Derek Sanderson?
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