Kurkjian was born in Bethesda , Maryland , to Badrig " Jeff " Kurkjian , a mathematician , and Joyce " Joy " Kurkjian . Badrig 's parents settled in Watertown , Massachusetts after the Armenian Genocide , while Joyce was born in England . Badrig was a statistician who earned degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , George Washington and American Universities , taught at the University of Alabama , was the chief mathematician for the United States Army Materiel Command and was a fellow with the American Statistical Association . He was also an avid baseball fan who instilled in his son his love of both the sport and of statistics from a young age . According to Kurkjian , his family constantly talked and thought about baseball . Both of Kurkjian 's older brothers played college baseball for the Catholic University Cardinals and were inducted into that school 's athletics hall of fame . In his youth , in addition to playing baseball , young Kurkjian collected baseball cards , played tabletop baseball games and read anything baseball-related that he could
Armenian Genocide
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Tim Kurkjian