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the 70th anniversary of the daring Doolittle Raid. On Monday, Sean Doolittle was presented a laminated poster from the event.
• Fish and other supporters of the museum are campaigning to get the "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders" awarded with a Congressional Gold Medal.
• Sean Doolittle's research project began in earnest during spring training with a photo of the Doolittle Raiders patch, a constant reminder to Sean Doolittle on his phone to finally figure out at last just how he is related to Jimmy Doolittle.
• People around the Oakland Coliseum constantly ask him about the connection, and Doolittle had his own interest in the family history, too.
• "What's special is that people of his generation are interested in history and their ancestry and all the accomplishments that their relatives made, especially in times of stress," Fish said. "We really have it really good right now and it's real easy to forget about all the people who sacrificed to get us here. It's just really special. That's the reason I do this, is to help pass those values on to the next generation. It really is neat that he cares, comes here and learns a little bit more."
• Sean Doolittle tried going up from his family tree. He tried starting with Jimmy Doolittle and going down the tree. He used the ancestry sites online to no avail. Eventually, the pitcher connected with a Doolittle genealogist who was able to "connect the dots" with the Alameda-born Jimmy Doolittle. He attended the University of California in Berkeley.
• "It's one of those things I always kind of wondered," Doolittle said. "I had some down time. It was mainly just curiosity and I had a bunch of people last year around the Coliseum ask me if I was related to him, how I was related to him. They kind of connected the dots with the street and my last name. I wanted to be able to tell them really what the relationship was, not, 'I think he's a distant uncle.' I wanted to be able to nail it down. Being here, it's really cool."
• Handwritten on Doolittle's cleats and under the brim of his cap are his version of a tribute to Jimmy Doolittle and the raid that did so much to boost American morale during World War II.
• "The motto on the Doolittle Raiders patch that they wore, it's French, but it translates into English as 'Forever Into Danger,'" Sean Doolittle said. "It's pretty cool. Obviously, the type of danger I come into is a little bit different than they had to deal with. To have it be part of your family history and then to be able to relate it to what you're doing is pretty sweet."
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