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Pat Malone on promoting Washington DC at MLB Expansion meeting - \n\n"I just took my whole script and I chucked it . . . I gave my pitch from a passionate fan's point of view of why Washington should have baseball back in DC. When the meeting was over, George Steinbrenner, he comes up to me and says, 'Pat, I got to tell you something. When you took that script and you whipped it in the trash, I looked around the table, and everybody is now watching what you were saying and they were listening to what you were saying.'"\n\nPat Malone, Mr. Baseball, Washington DC\n\nA Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. We have a special guest today that I attribute the idea, and you can live with it, audience, or not. This man is more responsible than anybody I know\nto bring baseball back to Washington. When I first met this young man, he was a Sergeant in the United States Air Force. I said, "He ought to be defending us instead of promoting baseball," but there he was. That's Pat Malone. Pat, welcome to Our Town.\nThe Early Years\nPat Malone: Andy, thank you so much. I want to tell you something. I'm just overjoyed to be here, really, because this is a part of Our Town which you and I both as Washingtonians- you're a fourth-generation Washingtonian. I'm a second-generation Washingtonian. This is just beautiful. I'm really happy to be here with you.\nA Ockershausen: Pat, it's about Our Town and you're such a big part of Our Town and I know that. I'll get back to that Air Force uniform first and last. Pat, you're from Punta Gorda, Florida? \nPat Malone: Well, I'm from here. I was born at Georgetown University Hospital, so I'm a second-generation Washingtonian.\nA Ockershausen: What were you doing in Florida?\nPat Malone: Dad said you couldn't play golf in the winter, so we moved to Florida. \nA Ockershausen: Was he a government employee at the time?\nPat Malone: No, Dad was a golf pro.\nA Ockershausen: I didn't know that.\nPat Malone: Yeah, sure. He was up at Burning Tree with Max Elbin. He was at Norbeck with Henry Girardi.\nA Ockershausen: He had all the good clubs then.\nPat Malone: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah.\nA Ockershausen: I used to play a lot at clubs and never, like Nat Allbright. You remember Nat of course?\nPat Malone: Yeah, sure. \nA Ockershausen: Your dad went to Florida and you went with him and you were born in Florida?\nPat Malone: No, I was born in DC.\nA Ockershausen: And moved to Punta Gorda.\nPat Malone: Yup. I actually ...\nA Ockershausen: Went to high school in Sarasota.\nPat Malone: Sarasota and in Punta Gorda, yup.\nA Ockershausen: You graduated and you said ... Why did you come back? Your dad came back to Washington?\nPat Malone: No. Actually what happened was I had a graduation present. It was either a 1970 Chevy Impala, a convertible cherried-out, or a one-way ticket back to Washington DC. I looked up and I saw that one-way ticket. I wanted to come home. \nA Ockershausen: You got back to Our Town.\nPat Malone: I came back to Our Town.\nA Ockershausen: Thank God for that. I'm sort of a, what do you call it? A weirdo. I never left Our Town. Every place I've ever been, I always thought Washington was a lot better than any place I could be.\nPat Malone: I'll tell you, Andy, it's when you leave Our Town you really appreciate Our Town.\nA Ockershausen: You know it and I know it, Pat. Then you went to school at American University. \nPat Malone: Yup. Went to AU. Go Eagles.\nA Ockershausen: You're a marketing manager. It got you in the Air Force.\nMilitary Service - United States Air Force\nPat Malone: I joined the Air Force. I was actually at Greendale Golf Course in Fairfax County, in the Alexandria part of Fairfax County. I joined the Air Force in 1978 and retired in 1998. \nA Ockershausen: You got 20 years.\nPat Malone: 20 years. Yup.\nA Ockershausen: You enlisted.\nPat Malone: I enlisted.