I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.
I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.