Michael Ortman never let go of his childhood passions, especially baseball. A gifted storyteller, Michael graduated from Notre Dame where he spent less time in class than in the sports information department and at the student newspaper and radio station. He and his wife Kate then assembled their winning team not through trades, free agency, or the draft, but by birth, adoption, and marriage. Their roster now boasts 17 children, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren. He spent most of the last 40 years as a senior executive in sports, marketing, and television and was a finalist in The Washington Post’s 2012 exhaustive search for “D.C.’s Greatest Sports Fan.” His bestselling book Opening Day: 50-for-50. One Fan. One Game. A Half-Century of Baseball Stories. chronicles his amazing streak of attending 50 consecutive Opening Day games (1970-2019) and earned great reviews from the likes of Tim Kurkjian, Ken Rosenthal, Cal Ripken Jr., and many others.