Entrepreneurs love other entrepreneurs. That's why Buzz Battaglia and I hit it off immediately.
It was 1989, Baltimore radio station WFBR had been sold, and I was going to try to buy my way onto the airwaves at WCAO. Manny Klein, then the media director at my brother's ad agency, TBC, made a couple calls on my behalf to help me find sponsors who would pay the freight.
Klein directed me to Buzz Battaglia, who owned six Metro Auto Parts stores around Baltimore and Bel Air, Md. (or "Belll-Air" as he would say it). I had known Buzz only as a sponsor of Phil Wood's radio show on WCBM. I stopped over to see Buzz at his Rosedale, Md., location, and based on Klein's seal of approval, Buzz was in.
