(who would later become Hammer's business manager) was actually the batboy while his job was to take calls and do "play-by-plays" for the A's absentee owner during every summer game. In 2010, Hammer discussed his lifelong involvement with athletes on ESPN's First Take as well as explained that his brother Louis Burrell Jr. Burrell served as a "batboy" with the team from 1973 to 1980. Finley saw the 11-year-old doing splits and hired him as a clubhouse assistant and batboy as a result of his energy and flair. In the Oakland Coliseum parking lot the young Burrell would sell stray baseballs and dance accompanied by a beatboxer. The Burrells would also frequent thoroughbred horse races, eventually becoming owners and winners of several graded stakes. He recalled that six children were crammed into a three-bedroom housing project apartment. He grew up poor with his mother (a secretary) and eight siblings in a small apartment in East Oakland. His father was a professional poker player and gambling casino manager (at Oaks Card Club's cardroom), as well as a warehouse supervisor. Stanley Kirk Burrell was born on March 30, 1962, in Oakland, California.
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