”I was born at Queen of the Angels hospital in 1936 and went immediately to the home my parents had built in Alhambra at the edge of town. Our neighborhood was like one big family with seven kids just in three houses strung in a row. One was a kid named Mike McCormick, who loved playing street baseball games and said he wanted to play professional baseball when he grew up. When I recently saw a photo of him, he was immediately recognizable as Mike from down the street. I have a photo of him in about 1947 on the day it snowed in L.A.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 18, 2018 11:26 UTC