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Why I love sports: Toby Rowland got hooked on sports at young age

Editor’s note: Oklahoma Sooners play-by-play man Toby Rowland tells The Oklahoman why he loves sports.

My favorite place in the world as a kid was the left-field grass hill at All-Sports Stadium in Oklahoma City. I would ask to go to 89ers games for my birthday just so I could have ice cream in a mini-helmet and chase foul balls on that hill.

It was the greatest rush when a lefty would slice one my way and I (and 100 other kids like me) would try to quickly calculate the velocity, height and projected deflection angle.