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Article: Dan Guerrero brings tireless effort to UCLA.(The Orange County Register)
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- April 26, 2002
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LOS ANGELES _ The very young Dan Guerrero was forced to bed by 7 p.m. every night.
For one thing, the streets of Wilmington were a bit volatile in the late `60s; for another, Gene Guerrero had spent all day at the Union 76 refinery, and he wanted at least a piece of quiet.
"But I managed to sneak that transistor radio into bed," Dan Guerrero said Friday, "and I'd sit there and listen to my passion, the Dodgers. Yeah, my dad busted me a couple of times. And he made me pay the price. But not enough to stop me from doing it, and, eventually, he understood."
Gene already knew where the passion came from. When Dan was 2, Gene was hitting him ground ...