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- he was the first and only child of harold and helen. they'd had trouble conceiving. and so his arrival was like a gift from heaven. they lived on hawthorne street. it was a blue-collar italian neighborhood. they were a little trinity. on the kitchen wall, there was some kind of decoration with all three of their names. and i think that rudy was the star of the family. a theme that runs through his life is that he's got to be at the center of the action. he's got to be the guy. and i think it started on hawthorne street with mom and dad where he was the star. - i was born and i grew up one mi...

From where donald trump was born. - he was the first and only child of harold and helen. they'd had trouble conceiving. and so his arrival was like a gift from heaven. they lived on hawthorne street. it was a blue-collar italian neighborhood. they were a little trinity. on the kitchen wall, there was some kind of decoration with all three of their names. and i think that rudy was the star of the family. a theme that runs through his life is that he's got to be at the center of the action. he's got to be the guy. and i think it started on hawthorne street with mom and dad where he was the star....

- i was born and i grew up one mile from ebbets field. - ebbets field, the home of the dodgers, a brooklyn institution. - the signs tell the story of brooklyn's love for its own bums, as they fondly call their team. - my father, however, was born in manhattan. so his revenge was to make me a yankee fan. - rudy is a very complicated person. he grows up in brooklyn, a yankees fan. so he's always a little bit of a contrarian. - in 1950s brooklyn, the dodgers were closer to a borough religion. - and that kind of strong cultural bias, to be a yankee fan in brooklyn, would take either a lot of guts ...

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

The legendary Dodgers broadcaster, who died Tuesday at age 94, was a modern Socrates, only more revered. He was simultaneously a giant and our best friend.