SAN FRANCISCO – Normand Joseph Fisher loved sports and during his years as an officer in the United States Air Force, he played fastpitch softball in the military, catching and moving all around the diamond. He also was a football player, serving as a punter. 

“He liked to talk about being a good baseball player – we’d always give him (crap) for that,” son Braydon, a good baseball player for the Toronto Blue Jays, recalled Wednesday. “My mom always tells him I got my athletic ability from her. But he played baseball, and he loved baseball. He loved all sports. Growing up, if it had a score, it was on the TV. So he loved watching us. He loves all the guys. I don't think for the last two years you'd see him not in Blue Jays gear, ever, it didn't matter the occasion.”

The elder Fisher’s fandom was the most recent........

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