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And now Alex Cortez brings us the life story of Ken Kendrick, the principal owner and managing

general partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the baseball team, a gig he probably didn't expect

to have as a child.

Here's Alex.

Ken Kendrick grew up in the small town of Princeton, West Virginia.

I had the great good fortune when you look back on your life when you're my age,

and I know that I had great fortune in growing up in a small town.

Not a place of wealth, but it was a place of great comfort to have great friends that you started out.

And I even today have my group of friends from that time called my Sandbox Friends.

And we celebrated as a group our 75th birthdays, all from the same little town, the same little kindergarten, the same 12

grades until we all went off to college. And I'll give you one story that's one of my great,

now that I'm in the world of sports, one of my greatest sports exploits, which once I tell this, you will realize I didn't have very many great sports exploits,

was as a 14-year-old, our baseball team was a pony league, 13 and 14-year-old, was a pretty darn good team.

And we competed to go to the World Series. And we were in a double

elimination tournament, one game away from going to the World Series of the Pony League, which would

have been when Washington, Pennsylvania was where they played their, like Williamsport to the Little

League, Washington, PA is to the

Pony League. So we're in the final, we now have the game where we're playing a team. They've

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