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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

I'm not a sportswriter.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.