Jesse Metcalfe became a household name as a shirtless hunk on “Desperate Housewives” and a regular on Hallmark, he was a Little League slugger in the Nutmeg State idolizing Yankee great Don Mattingly.“I had a pretty idyllic childhood,” he told me on this week’s episode of “Renaissance Man,” adding, “Connecticut’s a great place to grow up.
I was a public school kid, played sports.” Baseball and hoops were his passion — as were the Bronx Bombers.“My favorite baseball player growing up was Donnie Baseball.
I was a big Yankees fan growing up,” he said. “And, as a lot of people know, if you live in Connecticut, between Massachusetts and New York, there’s a huge Red Sox-Yankees rivalry going on.
So, I had a lot of fun with that with my friends growing up.”Jesse’s favorite show was “The Wonder Years,” but he was also drawn to “Three’s Company” for the comedy.
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