William P. Lovering born in Boston, and grew up next to the Red Sox's Fenway Park. Bill dreamed of being a baseball player all his life and during his sophomore year at a local junior college he was approached by baseball scouts for the Philadelphia Phillies. They offered to send him to Arizona and attended one of the baseball building camps (Mickel's Farm Club) which is partly supported by many of the major league teams, for a six month work out and evaluation.

The evaluation after four months did not pan-out after the Phillies scouts reviewed his progress, Bill was heart broken. Then one day Jim "Yogi" Bronson showed up and was able to spark Bill into staying with the program until the six months were up. And it was a good thing since the L.A. Dodgers liked what they saw in him, and signed him for one year as a relief pitcher.

Bill was with the Dodgers for three years, but elbow trouble ended his baseball career. Bill returned to Phoenix and worked part time at Eddie Mickel's baseball farm and would call this home for the next 40 years. He returned to college and earned a degree in business. He bought into the business with Ed Mickel, and would become the owner when Ed died in 1984. He would marry Viola Mason, whom he never forgot, after saying good-bye the day he left for Dodger Stadium. They would have three boys all dedicated to baseball and carrying on the Eddy Mickel farm club tradition into the new millennium.

His middle name? Paine, after Thomas Paine the famous writer and intellectual revolutionary of America's Revolutionary War. All the men in William's family shared the same middle name to honor their uncle from a very large family tree.

Born Edward Mickel in the heart of New York City he was a Bat Boy for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1939 at the age of ten. In 1949 Eddie was still on the Dodger payroll as a trainer for the team. When owner Walter O'Malley announced the Dodgers would leave New York and move out to Los Angles in 1958 after 68 seasons in the Red Apple, Eddie went with them as a senior batting coach and bunt specialist, he was almost thirty.

Los Angeles was a world away from New York but this did not stop the Dodgers from winning and burning as bright as the California sun which shinned on their new blue uniforms. Shortly after the move to the west coast Dodger Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campanella ask Eddie if he would be interested in managing an AAA farm club which was outside of Phoenix. Eddie jumped at the chance and signed on with the new job. After five years in 1964 Eddie was owner and president of Mickel Industries.

Over the years Eddie turned out many great and solid baseball players for many of the major league teams. That Christmas in 1969 saw Jim Bronson return to his love of baseball and lend a hand to shape a dynamic player which would eventually ensure the Mickel farm clubs existence for the completion of the 20th century.