Tracie Speca-Ventura, Sports & The Arts
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September 10, 2018

Tracie Speca-Ventura, Sports & The Arts

Tracie Speca-Ventura walked by an art gallery with sports exhibits in 1989 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. She was 19.

“I thought, this is super cool. There was a help wanted sign,” she said. “I went in and said I didn’t know anything about art, but I know a lot about sports and know how to sell.”

Speca-Ventura had just spent a summer serving as an assistant to Pete Rose and his family when he managed the Cincinnati Reds. Speca-Ventura’s father, Lee Speca, was Rose’s minor league roommate in 1961.

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