mark lemke

I started collecting baseball cards as a boy and kept getting a card by this Mark Lemke guy whenever I eagerly opened pack after pack of '89 Donruss... Little did I know at the time that he was a hometown boy and it figures that I caught him at the end of his career already, but here's the skinny on this Utica native!

It was the lyrics from the ole' Frank Sinatra song that got me thinking about all the famous people who got their start here in the Utica area. "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere", is the line we all belt out at the end of every Yankee game (even if you're not a Yankee fan). When I starte...