This week's guest is Pam Forton, a retired math teacher and former para-legal from the Traverse City, MI, area. Pam traces her sports fanaticism back to her grandmother who was a huge Detroit Tigers fan her mother who was an even bigger college basketball fan; Isiah Thomas in particular.
Herself, Pam enjoys it all. She's not opposed to staying up late to watch west coast action, tennis, cycling, you name it. She fell in love with track and field during the 1964 Tokyo and 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Those were the first times she ever saw women competing in athletic competitions. She's also a fan of the Winter Olympics and recalls being transfixed by Peggy Fleming's skating prowess and native son Jean-Claude Killey's skiiing during the 1968 Grenoble, France, Games. Pam also shares that her husband, Tom - then in the Army - was stationed in Germany during the 1972 Munich Games and was in the arena for the much-disputed USA-USSR Men's Gold Medal Basketball Game.
The Forton's are frequent sports travelers, especially in the spring and fall when they try to make a weekend out of it (seeing multiple events over the weekend). During the summer, they have the Traverse City Pit Spitters of the Northwoods League (a summer league for college players).
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