Early Life
Hershiser was born in Buffalo, New York to Mildred I. Gillman and Orel Leonard Hershiser III. From 1973 to 1975, he participated in ice hockey with the Don Mills Flyers of the Greater Toronto Hockey League. He attended Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he was the star pitcher on the school's baseball team. He played at Bowling Green State University, where he first caught the attention of pro scouts as a pitcher. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
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