John Orton
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"John Andrew Orton" was a Major League Baseball catcher. He is an alumnus of Cal Poly - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where he was an all conference catcher.

Drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels in the 1st round of the 1987 MLB amateur draft, Orton would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels on August 20, 1989, and appear in his final game on July 4, 1993.

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I think you've got to look at where we were the first month and a half to where we are right now, ... There's still a few too many errors, but we're picking each other up, continuing to work hard. These guys are playing right now with probably the best confidence and best chemistry we've had all year.

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Eleanor Roosevelt came to my rescue, ... I was selected as one of 30 students from around the country to attend the International Student Service Summer Student Leadership Institute at Campobello.

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That was a marvelous occupation and very successful.

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I was going to go to Pakistan in 1965 to complete the project, but war broke out and I never made it there.

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You're going to make errors, ... But we've done it a little bit too much where it kept us from getting on a winning streak and hurt us in close games.

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They were looking for people who could type.

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We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies.

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The bottom line is I'm proud of how these guys responded the last month.

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