Astros

I love my Astros, could someone please tell me what's wrong with these guys. So much hitting talent on this team and nobody is hitting. Do you fire the hitting coach? Berkman hitting 260 something and the rest of these guys hitting 190, very sad. Hunter and following Biggio going for 3000 hits only fun thing to say about these guys right now. Just wait, they will wake up soon.

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Jackie Robinson

I think Major League Baseball has done a wonderful job this last week with the Jackie Robinson anniversary. It was great to see all the players involved. Some of the young guys probably didn't know who Jackie was until last week. I know we still have a long way to go to make things right in this world, but for us old guys I do have to admit we have made some progress. Growing up in the country in Mississippi 50 plus years ago, seeing and hearing the things that went on, lets just say it was pretty bad. And what's really sad is that it was every day life and no one thought twice about saying some real nasty things to people. Well it's getting better all the time, let's keep it up and make this world a perfect place to live.

What Jackie did sure got us started on the right foot.

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Church Baseball

Living in the sticks we had no organized baseball, they did have Little League in town but we didn't live in town. We did however have a church league that was for all the males from age 6 to 60. Church membership was so small we had to use everybody to field a team.

Three churches played each other, Tinsley, Oil City, and Bentonia. All three fields were nothing more than a pasture, no backstops, pitchers mound or dugouts

I was the only small kid on our team, the rest of the guys were old teenagers and adults. I played second base, just because in the event I should knock something down the throw to first base was short. The other teams showed me no mercy at all. They pitched to me just like they did the rest of the players. Hey it was a easy out. This is when I was 8, 9, and 10 years old. Trying to hit adult pitching was a hugh challenge. I did every now and then get some wood on the ball.

It all paid off later.



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Country Boy

Growing up out in sticks with no other kids around to play with you learn real quick how to stay entertained. I remember at very young age, me and one of my dad's birddogs would take off through the woods and be gone for hours. Go down to the creek and find all sorts of goodies. Always would come home with a pocket full of arrowheads, Mississippi woods just full of good stuff like that.

Next time we'll talk about learning to play baseball with adults.

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Mississippi boy

I was born in Yazoo City Mississippi in late 1949. Please don't laugh, Yazoo City is a huge town, we lived in Tinsley. Tinsley is a small oil field stop in the road with a population of less than 50 people, this includes all the people that live in the hills within 5 miles or so. My dad was a clerk for Hassie Hunt Oil Company. We lived in a company house on the property where his office was. Mom was a stay at home housewife, I guess not many women worked out of the home back in those days.

Stay tuned for more Mississippi life.

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I'm a blogger now

My friend just made me a blogger and I don't even know yet what a blogger does for a living. I will tell all about myself at a later date, but for now I want everyone to know I own a furniture consignment store and sell a small amount of sports cards. I did have a sports card shop for 15 years. I worked in the construction field long ago but loved sports so much I ended up in that racket.

Please stop back by someday and see I figure out this blogging stuff.

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