But his best proved not good enough, and he failed to make the team.
With dreams of becoming a professional baseball player, Clooney was invited to try out for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 when he was just 16. Clooney grew up on the set of his father's shows, occasionally serving as a commercial pitchman and sketch player, before later working as a floor manager. His father, Nick - brother of famed singer and actress Rosemary Clooney - was a local talk show host turned popular news anchor.
George Timothy Clooney raised in the small Kentucky town of Augusta, a scant 40 miles south of Cincinnati, OH.
