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HarryBosch said:
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Sharpsburg, right across the street. My knothole days predated Pete Rose, Stan the Man Musial was my hero growing up.
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got hit by a car leaving basketball practice as a 7th grader and broke my femur right in the cross walk between the school and five points. Was all set to play for Pat Hines and Frisch's. As you probably know we didn't have a gym at St. matts and had to use Sharpsburg. My hero growing up was Frank Robinson. Broke my heart when Dewitt traded him to the Orioles. Milt Papas, Jack Balchum and Dick Simpson. We was robbed. All Robby did was lead the to the title. Grew up on Floral avenue. Got my hair cut by Tony the barber. Bet you did to. Lol!!!
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WAITE HOYT 2 said:
HarryBosch said:
got hit by a car leaving basketball practice as a 7th grader and broke my femur right in the cross walk between the school and five points. Was all set to play for Pat Hines and Frisch's. As you probably know we didn't have a gym at St. matts and had to use Sharpsburg. My hero growing up was Frank Robinson. Broke my heart when Dewitt traded him to the Orioles. Milt Papas, Jack Balchum and Dick Simpson. We was robbed. All Robby did was lead the to the title. Grew up on Floral avenue. Got my hair cut by Tony the barber. Bet you did to. Lol!!!
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Grew up on Madison Ave.. Was Tony's the barber shop on Robertson
Ave?
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WAITE HOYT 2 said:
HarryBosch said:
got hit by a car leaving basketball practice as a 7th grader and broke my femur right in the cross walk between the school and five points. Was all set to play for Pat Hines and Frisch's. As you probably know we didn't have a gym at St. matts and had to use Sharpsburg. My hero growing up was Frank Robinson. Broke my heart when Dewitt traded him to the Orioles. Milt Papas, Jack Balchum and Dick Simpson. We was robbed. All Robby did was lead the to the title. Grew up on Floral avenue. Got my hair cut by Tony the barber. Bet you did to. Lol!!!
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Robby not only led them to the title, he won the triple crown. Dewitt called him an old 30. Boy was he wrong. I was a west side kid myself. Played knothole in Colerain Township. Played a lot of games at Haubner field, but ventured over to Delhi many times to get our asses handed to us. The Delhi Eagles used to own knothole in Cincinnati....Lol....and they definitely owned us. My dad taught me to throw a curve when I was 5. I was unhittable for many years. There were no pitch counts in those days and nobody cared about young kids throwing curves. Lol, I think I had some 300 pitch games back then.. I had nobody to relieve me. It was all complete games. Those were the days!
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L-T said:
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
Robby not only led them to the title, he won the triple crown. Dewitt called him an old 30. Boy was he wrong. I was a west side kid myself. Played knothole in Colerain Township. Played a lot of games at Haubner field, but ventured over to Delhi many times to get our asses handed to us. The Delhi Eagles used to own knothole in Cincinnati....Lol....and they definitely owned us. My dad taught me to throw a curve when I was 5. I was unhittable for many years. There were no pitch counts in those days and nobody cared about young kids throwing curves. Lol, I think I had some 300 pitch games back then.. I had nobody to relieve me. It was all complete games. Those were the days!
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Yes he did L-T. I also remember him saying Robby was a old 30. Yea no one played in doors back in those days. I went to Purcell high school when Derrick Dickey was there. We played slam ball or pickle or some baseball related activity all day if weather permitted. Tried to pass that on to my kids.
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WAITE HOYT 2 said:
L-T said:
Yes he did L-T. I also remember him saying Robby was a old 30. Yea no one played in doors back in those days. I went to Purcell high school when Derrick Dickey was there. We played slam ball or pickle or some baseball related activity all day if weather permitted. Tried to pass that on to my kids.
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I'm with you. We went to the fields early in the morning. Often had to wait until other kids got off the fields. There were almost never any open baseball fields. From there we'd move to the street and play rubberball. Then to the backyards to the whiffleball and home run derby. Then on to other baseball games that we created. Then, when everybody went home, I'd go into the basement with my rubberball and play my own game. It was 24/7 baseball for me.
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L-T said:
WAITE HOYT 2 said:
I'm with you. We went to the fields early in the morning. Often had to wait until other kids got off the fields. There were almost never any open baseball fields. From there we'd move to the street and play rubberball. Then to the backyards to the whiffleball and home run derby. Then on to other baseball games that we created. Then, when everybody went home, I'd go into the basement with my rubberball and play my own game. It was 24/7 baseball for me.
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lol!! You would have fit right in with us. We never played innings. The outcome was always decided when the team that was ahead when the older brothers came to play was the winner that day. They usually took our ball and threw it over the fence. That signaled the game was over. Lol!!!
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UCalum08 said:
Nick Marshall who is Memphis's big man won't be returning per Jon R.

That's a hit for the tigers.
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Wild story. Apparently he told Tubby Smith he was away from campus because his mother was very sick. Smith drove up to his mother's house and it turns out Marshall was not and his mother was
not sick. Later he admitted he living elsewhere with a woman he got pregnant.
 

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