boyhood

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Mike Piazza, the slugger expensively coached from boyhood in the modern manner, saw “the silver spoons of his youth smelted into the first of ten consecutive Silver Slugger awards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Alexander-Arnold made a high profile move from boyhood club Liverpool to European giants Real Madrid last summer, but the transfer has not gone exactly to plan.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Seated in front of the camera in a Newcastle shirt and surrounded by posters of his idols, including Beardsley, viewers might have felt he was destined to one day represent his boyhood club.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

But Mr. O’Brien, the author of “Charlie Hustle,” an outstanding biography on Pete Rose, goes deep on Mr. Bird’s sometimes gothic boyhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Mother Marie, when Mr. Muhammad was busy, would tell me about her son’s boyhood and of his growing up in Georgia to young manhood.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey