b'our team members manages a McDonalds in Canarsie.Another is a bank manager at Chase.Playing football kept the kids out of trouble. I saw the kid who manages the McDonalds the other day, and he said,Mr. Spicer, you kept us straight, you kept us on the straight and narrow.I had rules. I told the kids, parents lead. If you mess up at home, youll mess up on the field, youll mess up in life.You need to know there are consequences to what you do, good or bad. If you want to be a team player, that goes foreverywhere. You cant be a team player here and then go home and not be a team player at home.I feel that because we had the team, theres Little League football in Brooklyn now. Our Little League team started it,the Falcons. The Falcons no longer exist. They formed other organizations that combined not only the leagues but neighborhoods. Theyre huge organizations with fields all over Brooklyn.The kids who played over those 16 years grew up. Many have families now; some are coaching Little League. I walkby and they call out, Hey, Mr. Spicer, want to coach?The Little League players of today are the union members of tomorrow. Many of our team members are now members of 237, the best team in the world. Thats the legacy of Local 237. We had nothing. We wouldnt have been able to play. The only thing the union asked was, How can we help?\x02Mike ShawHHC Maintenance Worker, Shop Steward, Grievance RepMike Shaw is a retired maintenance worker from Bellevue Hospital. Following are excerpts from a 1999 interview focusing on his experiences as a shop steward andgrievance rep from the late 1970s to 1995, the year he retired.When, how, and where did you first go to work for the city of New York?September 8, 1971. I was 31. I went to work at Bellevue Hospital where I remained until my retirement on November 15, 1995. I was brought in by someone who was there already.I had an air-conditioning and refrigeration background and they just happened to be looking for a guy with thosecredentials, and I just slid right under the door.The day I went for my interview, I had my car parked on Second Avenue and I got two tickets. There I was, trying toget out of the personnel office and shes sending me for a physical . so it was a disastrous day as far as tickets and moneyI had to lay out, but I did get the job.Tell us about your work as a maintenance man when you went to work at Bellevue.Well, we basically did everything. Our work was repairing small equipment. However, we did dive into the construc-tion end of it quite often. Repairing and lighting and just general electric stuff. I did air-conditioning, refrigeration, water120 '