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Time to meet David Hair, the current head hitting coach of the Texas Border Patrol. This profile may be a bit longer than average for many personnel profiles, but if it is, so be it. With no further ado, then, let's all try to get at least a little familiar with him here, if at all possible, folks.

David Hair was born on March 11, 1910 in Elmwood Park, New Jersey to Valentine, a native of Elizabethan England, and the former Nelke Jenting as their fourth son and sixth child. His father had been a twenty-year-old sailor in the English Royal Navy, but one night, while ashore on personal leave near Bristol, to spend a few nights with relatives there, he fell asleep, and then was mysteriously transported to 1890, appearing exactly 300 years later in the same bed at the same time of night he'd last been present at in the 16th Century. The first person his father saw after awakening and leaving the room he'd been in was Nelke, who was then visiting the current residents of the house he still was in from the United States as a high school junior.

It wasn't very long afterwards that the two became close friends to each other. Especially after it was eventually confirmed beyond any possible doubt that there was no then-known way for Valentine to somehow be returned safely to the Bristol of 1590 easily enough. Even after many attempts to try and find such a way for that to be possible in relation to him here.

Ultimately realizing that wouldn't likely ever change for him somehow, Val finally decided to try and adjust to his changed circumstances as best as he then could in his life. Although he still knew it might be rather difficult at times for him, he still resolved to do so, for sure. With or without anyone else's help, he still did so, to the best of his ability.

Val and Nelke married in 1893, and began having children in 1895, while both were attending college in New Jersey. Years later, David was born to them. David grew up in a large and loving family, mostly consisting of people on Nelke's side of his family, seeing as all those who Val had known of his in his family before being transported unexpectedly through time were already long dead, of course.

Baseball, among other sports, quickly got David's attention while he was growing up in and around northeastern New Jersey and New York City, New York. He was a moderately good student, and moderately passable as a baseball player on the diamond, but never a star player, in any case.

He played for a while with St. John's University in college, but couldn't really compete on the diamond in college against other players and/or teams, when odd injuries weren't often keeping him from playing at all. So essentially his playing career ended, at least for the most part, if not entirely, in college.

While he was still in college, he met his future wife, Gertrude Zunda, a native of Latvia. It wasn't much later that they got engaged to, then married to, each other, marrying by 1933, just before the Nazis began coming to power in Germany. After marrying, and after having finished college, they ultimately found themselves in North Texas.

While spending the first several years of their married life there, they eventually encountered Ben Winkler and his family for the first time, and soon began to correspond frequently with them. Years later, Ben offered David a job as the Border Patrol's first-ever head hitting coach for the franchise, and David accepted the offer. This will only be his second season overall as a professional coach of any kind, though.

David and Trudy now live with their four children just north of the New Mexico-Texas border near El Paso. They don't know if they'll want to live near El Paso for the rest of their lives. But right now, there's no other place they'd rather be, if they had a real choice, in their respective lives.

Picture(s) and certain other information will be shared later as possible and all, I'm sure. The next personal profile most likely to be shared here will be for Steve Harrison, the Border Patrol's chief Scouting Director, along with the current uniform set for the Texas Border Patrol, at least, I think. Thank you all for your time and attention here, then, folks. CD out.