Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class.
V intervjuju z novinarjem revije "Cigar Aficionado", Arthurjem Marxom, leta 1997 je dejal: »Spomnim se, da me je nekoč sodnik pri tretji bazi poslal iz igre, čeprav sem bil prepričan, da sem varen.