«He ranged beyond sports occasionally in radio interview programs with figures from all walks of life, but sports was his passion and had been since he was growing up in Brooklyn. For a time, while attending a yeshiva, he envisioned becoming a rabbi.
But he also played punchball and made Ebbets Field his second home. Sports won out. As he put it long afterward, unearthing the memory of a Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher of the 1930s with a terrific fastball and a musical name: "I was paying more attention to Van Lingle Mungo than I was to Moses."»
Bill Mazer, a Sports Fixture of New York Radio and TV, Dies at 92 - NYTimes.com
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