sentences:  The youngest of three children, Sternberg was born and raised in a Jewish family on Avenue M in the Canarsie neighborhood of New York's Brooklyn borough, the son of Beverly (née Tartell) and Samuel Sternberg, who owned a pillow shop on Flatbush Avenue.Sternberg's passion for baseball developed as a child while playing the game in the streets and playgrounds of his neighborhood.One of Sternberg's most cherished memories is of watching Sandy Koufax pitch while attending his first Major League game, with his father, at Shea Stadium in 1965.