"John Witt" People of the United States/American known for catching a large number of Major League Baseball/Major League Baseball (ball)/baseballs. He is best known for catching over 5,000 baseballs at professional baseball games over the past 34 summers. Witt is also an author, sportswriter/baseball columnist and actor.

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Schools and rapid advancement ... made me think that a career in the Navy might not be too bad.

I went over to Great Lakes and got myself a new uniform to wear.

After three days, it got nice and calm -- until the skipper announced we had been in a hurricane, were in the eye at present and would have another two days coming out the other side.

We informed our people on the surface, tracked it for a while and then headed to port. After we left port, I was in the executive officer's quarters and noticed a newspaper picture of a submarine with an article stating it was the first time a Russians nuclear submarine had ever been photographed on the surface while in operating waters.