McNamee, the youngest of eight children born to John Francis McNamee (1925-2020) and Eleanor Margaret Harte (1931-2018),[2] grew up in Breezy Point, Queens. He attended Archbishop Molloy High School. From 1986 to 1989, McNamee was a student at St. John's University in Queens.[3] At one point he was employed at St John's University, teaching in the sports management program.[4] McNamee falsely held himself out to be a doctor.[4][5][6][7][8] He claimed his doctorate was from Columbus University (Louisiana).[4]
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^Kovaleski, Serge F. "A Baseball Lover, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era", The New York Times, December 15, 2007. Accessed February 19, 2008. "Mr. McNamee was raised in the Breezy Point section of Queens, on the westward end of the Rockaway Peninsula, an area with many police officers, like his father. As a youngster Mr. McNamee was drawn to baseball and became a catcher playing at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens (in which he was the M.V.P. of the league & captain of the team and then at St. John’s University (also captain of the team) which he attended from 1986 through 1989, majoring in athletic administration, McNamee received a Masters(MS) in Sports Medicine from Long Island University (L.I.U.), according to a spokesman for St. Johns University( S.J.U.), Dominic Sianna."