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==Early life== Berman was born in [[Greenwich, Connecticut]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chamoff |first1=Lisa |title=Sportscaster Berman is GHS commencement speaker |url=https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Sportscaster-Berman-is-GHS-commencement-speaker-4464383.php |website=Greenwich Time |date=April 26, 2013 |access-date=February 1, 2023}}</ref> and grew up in [[Irvington, New York|Irvington]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the son of Peggy Shevell (nΓ©e Tenenbaum), who worked as a reporter-researcher for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, and James Keliner Berman, a corporate executive vice president.<ref name=nyt1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/24/style/katherine-alexinski-wed-to-christopher-berman.html |title=Katherine Alexinski Wed to Christopher Berman |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1983-07-24 |access-date=2013-11-10}}</ref> He was raised [[Jewish]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CSULB professor explores baseball's impact on Jewish Americans|publisher=Daily 49er|date=April 15, 2010|author=Sean Dillon, Staff Writer|url=http://www.daily49er.com/news/csulb-professor-explores-baseball-s-impact-on-jewish-americans-1.2224704|access-date=June 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703043727/http://www.daily49er.com/news/csulb-professor-explores-baseball-s-impact-on-jewish-americans-1.2224704|archive-date=July 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> During his childhood, he went to Camp Winnebago in [[Fayette, Maine]]. He enrolled at the [[Hackley School]] in 1970, and graduated [[Brown University]] in 1977 with a degree in history,<ref name=Regular>{{cite news|last=Arace|first=Michael|title=Chris Berman: Regular Guy With a National Following|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ts4zAAAAIBAJ&pg=2362,3975925&dq=chris+berman+hackley+school&hl=en|access-date=May 5, 2013|newspaper=Gainesville Sun|date=October 14, 1993}}</ref> where he was the sports director of the school's radio station, [[WBRU]].<ref>{{cite news | last=Schwartzapfel | first=Beth |url=http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/353/40/ |title=Radio Heads |publisher=brownalumnimagazine.com |date=January 2006 |access-date=2015-12-12}}</ref>
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