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Six Degrees of DeLorenzo If you read the President's Day story here in the DeLorenzo's Dugout Clubhouse, you'll know that one of the wackier fringe benefits of my career has been the unplanned "brushes with greatness". Whether it's Bill Clinton or Bill Shatner, I swear on a stack of Star Trek paperbacks I've actually met all of these folks at one time or another (in no particular order -- and by met, I mean had conversations with, not just saw them standing there!)... Lloyd Bridges...Michael Keaton...Bjorn Borg...Guillermo Vilas...Yannick Noah...Jimmy Connors...John McEnroe...Van Earl Wright...Jenny McCarthy...Lynda Carter...William Shatner...Rebecca Romijn...Stephanie Seymore...Jill Goodacre...Richard Simmons...Dick Gautier...Dan Rather...Cal Ripken...Harry Kalas...Garry Maddox...Rollie Massimino...Mario Andretti...Leonard Tose...Harold Katz...Bill Giles...Bill Clinton...Don King...Mike Tyson...Perry Como...Tommy Lasorda...Jon Lovitz...Greg Gumbel...Len Berman...Marv Albert...John duPont...Gerald Ford...Alexander Haig...Jean Shepherd...Mickey Spillane...Mike Lupica...Dick Schaap...Jack Larson...Noel Neill...Kirk Alyn...Dave Winfield...Billy Martin...Ron Jaworski...Bill Bergey...Reggie Jackson...Tony Gwynn...Carl Lewis...Steve Allen...Hermoine Gingold...Verne Lundquist...Johan Kriek...Vic Damone...Marvelous Marvin Hagler...Hy Lit...Chuck Daly...Billy Cunningham...John Calipari... Now, as a gag, some of my colleagues played the old "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game and substituted me as the "subject," and here's the results... 1. Jim DeLorenzo escorted Lloyd Bridges & Jimmy Connors around the Riviera Country Club...Lloyd Bridges was in Tucker: The Man and His Dream with Christian Slater...Christian Slater was in Murder in the First with Kevin Bacon. 2. Jim DeLorenzo escorted Michael Keaton around the Riviera Country Club...Michael Keaton was in She's Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon. 3. Jim DeLorenzo had dinner with Verne Lundquist in Philadelphia...Verne Lundquist was in The Last Boy Scout with Bruce Willis...Bruce Willis was in 12 Monkeys with Brad Pitt...Brad Pitt was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon. 4. Jim DeLornezo worked with Jim Nantz on a Villanova NCAA Tournament game...Jim Nantz was in Tin Cup with Kevin Costner...Kevin Costner was in JFK with Kevin Bacon. More to come? We'll see...
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