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Bobby Goldwater, Innovative Sports Executive and Consultant, on when he realized he could come up with a strategy to bring a Major League Baseball team back to Our Town~\n\n"The first five people, Andy, that I met with inside baseball, did not know a basic fact about Washington DC and the light bulb goes off, this is a marketing project. I can do that."\n\nBobby Goldwater, Innovative Sports Executive and Consultant, and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen and a conversation with a very dear friend and a very important person to me and to Our Town. His name is Bobby Goldwater. Many, many times. I have thought to ask you this question, are you related in any way to the Arizona Goldwaters?\nSenator Barry Goldwater Distant Relative\nBobby Goldwater:\tYes. I am told, that there is a distant relation. My sister, once upon a time did a family tree. We are, this is what she told us, fourth cousins twice removed, from the Arizona Goldwaters. I never met Senator Goldwater. My father and my brother did, but I did not.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell, a fabulous human being, to me-\nBobby Goldwater:\tYes indeed.\nAndy Ockershausen:\t... and a member of Our Town, he lived in Our Town in an apartment complex, and I used to go into the drug store, he went into the druggist all the time, but I met him and then I had the misfortune fortune, I was a delegate to the Republican National Convention to support Barry Goldwater because he was such a, at the time a fresh breeze and a thing. He was a Westerner as you know, and he lived it and breathed it. His family lived it. I went to his department store in Phoenix one time, just to make sure it was there, but he didn't have anything to do with it. I think his brother ran that.\nThe Goldwater's Fine Department Store\nBobby Goldwater:\tWell, the family did, and the first time I was in Phoenix I said to myself, \u201cYou know, I've got to go to the department store because it has my name on it.\u201d So I went in, I did some shopping, and I hand my credit card to the clerk, and she sees my last name, and she calls the assistant manager, and the assistant manager is going, \u201cOh, Mr. Goldwater, Mr. Goldwater, was everything okay?\u201d I'm trying to convince her that I am not that Goldwater, I am not part of that part of the family, and I couldn't convince her so I just let it go. She was very nice, she couldn't have been nicer, but it was just funny, but I took a shopping bag with my family name on it. It was great.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd your own Goldwater. Bobby, that's a great story, but that was a big part of your life. The name I'm sure when you were growing up in the business and you're a New Yorker. Scarsdale High School.\nScarsdale High School Alumnus | Scarsdale, New York\nBobby Goldwater:\tYes sir.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThat's a very wealthy neighborhood, Scarsdale, I would say.\nBobby Goldwater:\tPeople think that, yes.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tScarsdale High was sort of like Hollywood High on the east. I mean they had all the celebrity. And you went to Miami University of Ohio, which is a long way from Scarsdale but not. Scarsdale is the upper grade high school as I remember.\nBobby Goldwater:\tMm-hmm (affirmative), it is.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd the University of Miami is fabulous.\nMiami University of Ohio Alumnus\nBobby Goldwater:\tMiami University.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tI mean, I mean-\nBobby Goldwater:\tWe're very sensitive about that.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd they make a big thing of that too.\nBobby Goldwater:\tYes, we do.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tDonna Shalala, right?\nDonna Shalala Attended the University of Miami\nBobby Goldwater:\tYeah. She was at the University of Miami-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tI know that.\nBobby Goldwater:\t... in Florida.\nOther Ohio Universities\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut Ohio is such an important part our culture because there's an Ohio school, it's not Ohio State, right?\nBobby Goldwater:\tNope.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tUniversity of Ohio.