Ollie Anderson was born in the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco California. He was bred to be an All-American baseball player by his father John S, and a highly talented artist by his mother Diana. His father was drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, after winning the NCAA championship for Ohio State, which he turned down to eventually become President...
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Ollie Anderson was born in the Haight-Ashbury of San Francisco California. He was bred to be an All-American baseball player by his father John S, and a highly talented artist by his mother Diana. His father was drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, after winning the NCAA championship for Ohio State, which he turned down to eventually become President's Nixon's White House Veterinarian. His mother was one of the first supermodels and was on the cover of virtually every billboard and shopping bag in California, which she eventually gave up to continue her marriage. Because of John S. and Diana's success, Ollie was masterfully trained for two different worlds. In his father's, Ollie at 10 years old finished a season of 22 games averaging 2 homeruns per game with a perfect batting average of 1.000! When he reached the age of 17 he was honored as a division one all-league player, completing the famous Joe DiMaggio league with a batting average of .571 in over 60 games. To no one's shock with his mother's notable history, Ollie was offered his first acting and modeling job from Walt Disney World, which would keep his young face in history for the next 10 years. He also was awarded a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design for his numerous featured works in Surrealism. In college, Ollie became so intruiged with his studies in Business and American Foreign Policy, that he decided to end his career in baseball because he "was walking only one road to the top of the mountain, and there is precedent to believe that there are many other paths leading to the top. Most importantly it's not my place to know what's at the top, nor even which road to take. That omniscient know-it-all thing was assigned long before I've been around. I just have to maintain going uphill, maybe I'll be lucky and make a goat path, but to where I don't know, and I doubt I will ever. You're not at Disney Land until you're at Disney Land, so why ask your mom how much longer?" Ollie eventually was awarded a Ronald Reagan Scholarship to study International Relations at Oxford, New College, which he attended beginning winter 2003. After attending one semester, her wanted to try his mom's film career for one year, "just for fun". After one year Ollie was in an international print campaign, a national commercial, a co-starring role on the number 1 rated show in America, and had a one day acting job in a film called the Art School Confidential. He turned down two jobs, one as a reality star for Paradise Hotel, and the other as a traveling model for 3 months. His mother's only comment was, "not bad".
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