Early Life
Purcell was born to Thomas (d. 1942) and Annette (d. 1972) Purcell on 11 August 1918 in Brooklyn, New York. A star athlete at Malverne High School, he was signed to play baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers but never played for them because he joined the army in 1941. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of captain.
Read more about this topic: Francis T. Purcell
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“I sought the simple life that Nature yields;”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)