I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
I was born to play baseball.
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.
My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
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