Just a few more days till Opening Day! And just a few more grades till we reach 3-year old nursery school. First grade:
Switch the two kids at the top right and this thing is exactly symmetrical, left-right, male-female-wise, not including Mrs. Campbell. Anyway, you've seen everyone in this class, except for one boy, Bobby, and one girl, Kelly. Can you find them? I mean, can you find them, Rebecca?

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We're one step closer to Opening Day as we move to second grade... the big 2009 season contest is coming up later today!
So...I went off the board with my pose in the grade 2 picture. Uncharacteristic. Other notes: This was a huge class! And, terrible job by the photographer, as several kids clearly weren't ready/were sneezing/etc. I'm sure you can spot me. But can you also find....the kid who went by the name "Bill" as opposed to the more kid-friendly "Billy"? ...Another kid who homered off me a few years later in Little League? (also over the wall, and this time with a rare wooden bat)...the kid who ate his potato chips with ketchup?....the kid who I've seen recently sitting at the scorer's table at halfcourt in NCAA basketball tournament games?....the kid who moved to Australia?...the kid who later got a pilot's license and ran a legitimate radio station out of his room, on which I won 103 cds in 1991 by being the 103rd caller? (I was also probably the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, etc...)....the kid who later crashed his motorcycle and required a body cast?....the girl who got her jean jacket autographed by one Corey Feldman when he came to Ridgefield for some reason?...the kid whose father prompted me to scream at the top of my lungs when he appeared on my TV screen--as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune?...the kid whose dad I named a short-lived band after (Skip Faith)?....the kid who came up to my lunch table in middle school and said "everyone at this table is a nerd" before noticing me, remembering that he'd known me since kindergarten, and then added, "except Jere"?

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Opening Day is getting closer! I give you...third grade:
I still look the same--but can you also find...the girl whose essay was so bad, the teacher ripped it up and sprinkled the pieces on her head? The girl we nicknamed Ana the Unicorn? A kid who hit a home run off me (over the wall) in Little League a few years later? The girl with a sister named "Sunny Jean"? The kid whose family put a "Go Mets" sign to rebut their neighbor's "Go Red Sox" sign during the '86 Series? The kid who later smoked in high school and would actually do the "Schneider" method of rolling the pack into his sleeve on his shoulder? The kid who gave a TOOTHBRUSH as his grab bag gift one Christmas--which I picked!? The girl who got walked in on in the bathroom--by the toothbrush kid?

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Ah, fourth grade. I should be pretty easy to find. But can you find....the kid who wore a blue suit on the first day of middle school? the kid who used to throw hamburgers against the cafeteria wall to see if they bounce? the girl who wanted to be a movie critic when she grew up? the new girl from Belgium? the kid who got pissed when we ruined his birthday party by making fun of his Dungeons & Dragons game and calling another friend of his "Fat Jack"? the kid whose house I saw Tron and played Lock & Chase at? the kid who mistakenly said during his current events report that after Pete Rose broke the all-time hit record, the game was stopped for seven seconds? the girl who I saw at the theater when I went to see Splash?

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Here's what we're gonna do. Every two days or so, I'll show you one of my class pictures. I'll start with 5th grade and go all the way down to three-year old nursery school. So the younger I get, the closer we'll be to baseball season. We begin with 5th grade:

Can you pick me out? Can you find...the British import? the kid whose name had been "Gay" but changed it, citing a re-marriage by his mom? the new girl who I had a crush on? the kid I made a massive papier mache shark with in art class? the thumbsucker? the kid who terribly didn't like the Dire Straits "Walk of Life" video with all the sports bloopers, despite being a teammate of mine on the Rotary Little League team? the kid who nicknamed one of the urinals "Power Pisser"?

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