1938. A baby boy is born in a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.
"She placed only a nickle bet on the number Papa had chosen, and put 95 cents into her small coin purse to use at the grocery store. She never made it to the store though, because she went into labor, and within hours was in the hospital, giving birth to a son—namely, me."
Marco came into this world as a good-luck charm for his father, and with a lesson in frugality from his mother.