^^^ We don't have that around here...we do have lots of American Legion halls, but I never heard of them playing baseball.

I was thinking Norm Cash...but he is long gone.

I read that book. Never knew they made it into a movie, now I need to find it.

Back in the 1920's when the Brits occupied/owned Iraq if their soldiers got shot at from a village they would go in pick out 10 men and SHOOT THEM. The Brits do to their liberal Western values didn't have the stomach for it. By the late 1920's the British wanting to get the he11 out gave the Iraq's their independence. In the following 30 or so years Iraq went through apx 60 changes in government. It was only when Sadam's Baathist party seized control that the next 35 years or so had a stable regime in control. One can not say that it was an Iraqi government.

What is completely unfathomable is that the American government (admin & bureaucracy) thought that it was a government and not a criminal organization that could easily be reconstituted after Sadam was deposed. They had no conception of HISTORY, nor culture. Their perceptions is completely based on Western thinking about how the world operates. In other words "Americans think that inside of every "Gook" is an American waiting to get out"...cudos to Stanley Kubrick's "Steel Metal Jacket" for that quote.

One should not sanitize history for if one does it at their own peril. If you sanitize history, the lessons to be learned are forgotten and you will make those mistakes again to your own possible demise. American do not realize that in the world you are either quick or you are dead. Or as Don Corlellone said, 'Women and children can afford to be careless, men can not."

Americans are fat, dumb and lazy thinking that they are entitled to a Rose Garden as they are a "RICH NATION." Well their fking little world is unraveling real quick...It only took Americans 50 years to BLOW the wealth that took 200 years to build. If one stops and notices what is going on around them and does not come to that conclusion they are delusional and their behavior is psychotic.

When I moved to South Carolina in the '70's, the small Catholic HS I attended did not have a baseball team, we all played American Legion BB. Bless them.

I didn't either but it is on Prime and I'll watch it this weekend.

I read the book when it came out. I was stationed in Millington, TN at the Bureau of Naval Personnel. I flew home at least most weekends and then stayed home a week a month and worked from the local Naval Air Station.

On the weekends I could not fly home, I'd pick a place to drive to. I drove to Black Oak, Arkansas after reading the book.

Wow.

Fun fact is that Grisham attended first grade in Black Oak.

As per Albert Collins:

I ain´t drunk. I am just drinkin´. :)

There was that time at band camp ......

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Had a nice 3 year run, 46 rounds of racing lost only one to a very close red light:eek:

Bicycle ride with wife and kids, my son was all of 5 or 6, daughter of 4-5 in the Hurley trailer mounted to my bike. Top of very steep hill with a 90 degree turn at bottom, maybe 100 yards total. I was clipped in as my son flew past forgetting how to brake. I managed to catch up in a few giant leaps and pull him off by his collar to slide on me downhill. Lots of skin loss on my part but wife thought I was a hero!

• When I was an infant (early 60s), I sat on the lap of a German rocket scientist: Wernher von Braun. We were both living in Alabama at the time. He was working the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo program, and I was filling diapers. :p




• I used to listen to The Greaseman, a popular disc jockey in Washington DC and later in national syndication, and one day I decided I could write for the show. After a few weeks of submissions and meeting with the producer, I was offered a part-time paying gig and did it for three years. Easily the most enjoyable/fun and paid job I ever had.


• My wife and I raised five kids, put all through college and now are all independent, educated, and tax paying adults.

I am kinda of known as being a "survivor" among my family, and friends, and running through my 9 lives like a cat. It all started my senior year of high school;

-1982 Hit by a 45 mph fright train in a Pinto no less (blind crossing, no gates)
-1987 First bout of Hodgkins Lymphoma
-1989 DVT (deep venus thrombosis) blood clot in my chest from the cancer radiation treatments
-1992 Re-Lapse of Hodgkins with chemotherapy
-1997 1st bout of heart failure (from chemo drugs)
-2001 Re-lapse of Hodgkins, more chemo
-2005 Re-lapse of CHF (heart failure) EF ratio at 13% after working all day
-2009 Another re-lapse of CHF
-2014 T-boned in Porsche 944 (17 broken bones/shattered pelvis, internal bleeding)
-2017 Continued degradation of heart function, got new pace maker

^^^ Holy crap! You must know your local hospital staff well.

I hope he tips them well. Talk about a survivor!

Wow! Glad you're still with us.

Side bar: You anywhere near Archbold? I have family there.

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Coulda prolly used a little Patrick during my 2020 claim to fame. '65 D1300

Guards Red. Owner liked the paint on my SC with the black accents.

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Nada.

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I got put in this book and didn't even know it...Years after it was published I got a phone call from a kid a few Station's away asking if I was the same guy in the book. I didn't know what the hell he was talking about and thought it was some ahole messing with me. Nope forever the story lives on..-WW

They sure as heck have (or did in '73) it in Puerto Rico. Legion ball has an upper age limit of 19, but we were certain that some of the guys on that team had to be in their twenties - particularly one of their full-bearded pitchers, who looked all of twenty-five.

You have to remember that back then, high-school (which most legion players are) kids who threw in the mid-80mph range were really bringing it. Hitting lead-off, other than fouling off a couple, I never touched this guy, who the Jugs gun had at 92, a velocity that was absolute gas to the 16 year old me and the rest of the team.

Not surprisingly, PR went on to win the whole thing. Also not surprising to anyone on our team, they were later stripped of their title for lying about player ages.

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I won a brand new 1991 Chevrolet Cavalier in a sales contest. It had a MSRP of $10,100.
It took me 3 months to sell it for $7,800...

I taught my son how to throw a baseball when he was young.





He was drafted in the 23rd round by the Angel's out of high school as a pitcher.

Your kids are very lucky.

But, the Greaseman...what time frame? Mid, late 80's?