I am a born in Brooklyn Dodger fan. I never got to Ebbets Field, but my first game was a Dodger Giants game in the Polo Grounds when I was 4. I was with my parents and both sets of my grandparents. We were in the 1st row behind the plate in the 2nd deck. My dad caught 2 foul balls and each of my grandfathers caught one. I went home with a wicker cornucopia full of baseballs. I guess it had come stuffed with lunch. I grew up in NJ and cried for weeks when the Dodgers moved.

I followed the Dodgers to LA after graduating from Wharton at Penn and getting into UCLA School of Law. My bucket list item of catching a foul ball wasn’t achieved until I was 60, despite attending 100’s of Dodger games in between. I’ve now got 4.

I played for 30 years in the Culver City Thursday night rec softball league where I was the oldest and slowest guy for at least the last 10. After Covid they didn’t seem to have a roster spot and I got the hint it was time to move on to the Senior league. I’m glad I did. It is great not being the oldest or slowest guy in the league. Plus, in daytime games, I can see well enough to play outfield

Ham radio has been my hobby since I was 15. In 1977 I read about microcomputers in a ham radio magazine and built an IMSAI 8080 in my sole practitioner law office with a smock on over my suit (later donated to the Smithsonian Museum where it was the first microcomputer in its collection.) I got into the computer printer business and then the computer accessory business. My best invention was the pullout keyboard drawer.

I was also one of the original spreadsheet jockeys. I had a friend who was doing market timing exchanging between Municipal Bond Mutual Funds and Money Market Mutual Funds. I knew what indicators he was looking at and created a spreadsheet to optimize results. It worked so well I became a Registered Investment Advisor and was able to use my frequent trading system for 14 years before the mutual funds got wise and changed their rules. I retired in 2003.

About that time I bought what has become a 1.7 acre ham radio antenna farm in Prince Edward Island Canada. My particular ham radio interest is competitions, where over a weekend (24, 36 or 48 hours – for the long ones I usually do 40 – 44) you try to make as many contacts in as many countries or states and provinces as possible using Morse code or voice or both on 6 different frequency bands. I’ve competed in the equivalent of the radiosport olympics in Slovenia in 2000 and Russia in 2010. I am currently trying to qualify for 2026 in England.

My wife, Heidi and I enjoy our grandchildren, traveling and playing gin rummy.