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Article: Tom McKillop: order of Canada, 'father' of families, friend of Jesus.
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- Catholic New Times
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- January 15, 2006
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One day in the summer of 1960, I came down to the old ramshackle club which stood at 121 Bellwoods Avenue in Toronto's Little Italy. I was there to ask for advice from my baseball coach Carmen Bush, already an inner city legend. As I walked in I noticed the simply framed motto of the club, "The Other Guy." Underneath was a picture of a man autographed with a note of thanks to Carmen. I asked him who he was. He told me his name was Tom McKillop and that he was the living embodiment of the club's motto.
Later we drove up to a west end park where McKillop was working as a playground supervisor during his summer vacation from the seminary. This was my introduction to ...