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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Morning Bytes column.(sports spectators' passion)(Column)
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- December 29, 2006
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Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick
Dec. 29--We can't usually pinpoint the origins of our passions.
How can you know the exact moment you fell in love with baseball? Or decided to see all of Woody Allen's films? Or determined you wouldn't miss a Dick Allen at-bat?
Yet even though it was 45 years ago tomorrow, I can tell you when college basketball became an obsession.
It was Dec. 30, 1961. I was 12 and terribly bored.
The Tudor Electric Football game I'd gotten for Christmas had ceased to function. It was too cold to play outside. My friends were busy. And since Father Dowd believed a beautifully waxed floor was meant to be admired, ...