Check out the dude to the right. This guy was a big part of my childhood.
Most of the kids in my sixth-grade science class were discovering rock formations, ecosystems, space travel, Newton’s Laws and the periodic table.
Me? No way were those academic pursuits ever going to penetrate my 12-year-old brain.
Space travel? I could at least relate to that having done quite a bit of it back in the day.
Newton? Fig Newtons … maybe. Juice Newton … probably, but not old Sir Isaac. And most definitely not Wayne Newton!
While most of my classmates were deep in their workbooks learning about the great wonders of the world, I was sitting in the back of the room getting a real education on the impressive professional baseball career of Walt “No-Neck” Williams.