I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.