Born in a three-decker

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“I was born on the kitchen table on the top floor of a three-decker wooden house on Merrick Street in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Two days later my mother was back at her work. That’s the way it was done in that kind of neighborhood at that time.’’

— Leo Durocher (1905-1991), Major League Baseball player, coach and manager, in Nice Guys Finish Last (1976)