OT: Let's see pictures from your "glory days"
 

Feeling a bit nostalgic tonight... here's a few photos of me playing from my senior year of high school (1990) in Indiana. Our team finished in the final eight of the state. Only played a few legion ball games after this... how I miss those days.

Show 'em if you got 'em:
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Never made it beyond Little League and sandlot. Only existing pic showing me with a bat. Taken back in 62 when I lived in Brooklyn. Those were my Glory Days.

Different sport, senior year in high school

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1985
 

Good old days
 

This a shot of the N Jersey all-area HS team back in the day. I'm in the back row 3rd from the left. To my immediate right is my buddy Adam Riggs, who played in the bigs for the Dodgers, SD & the Angels for a bunch of yrs, then over in Japan. Also in the front row, 2nd from left is Tim Coughlin(Tom's son). Great guys & great memories.

I just completely destroyed a bedroom closet and came up empty on the baseball pictures ........
Now I feel obligated to post something since I made the mess :)
Junior year. I'm the keeper.

david are you a vampire? you haven't aged one bit.

I have no photos, but this ball is from the 2nd-to-last game I pitched. I hadn't pitched in three years, but because of league 'rest' rules, no starter was available. I pitched a complete game, 3-hitter (lots of walks and errors) and the team presented me with this ball.

I heard you weren't the best pitcher in your family, Scott :)

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In the first base coaches box for the 107th Midnight Sun Game (2012), this picture was taken around 11:45 pm. For those not familiar with the game, it is played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. Because the sun is out for almost 24 hours a day, the game starts at about 10:30 at night and completes around 1:00 the next morning. No artificial lights are used during the playing of it. It is pretty amazing to look at the MLB alumni who have played in this game (including Tom Seaver and Dave Winfield). A lot of media outlets (ESPN, CNN, Sports Illustrated, etc...) say that is one of the top things in baseball to see. The Yankees did a feature on the 2012 game this year in one of their programs that I still need to get a copy of (how many times can you say you were in the Yankee Magazine?).

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Me on the course a few years ago (bad tee shot) at #2 at Arrowhead Golf Course in my hometown of beautiful Douglassville, PA. Former home of the Daniel Boone Blazers golf team and the same hole I got my hole-in-one from 127yds with a PW when I was 17 with my brother and golf coach in the foursome.

My Hole in One still isn't my best shot ever. Had an eagle over water on a par 4 from about 170, again with my brother in the foursome. Haven't played golf with any regularity since high school, but, I used to be decent. (Very Al Bundy sounding)

Haha. I heard that also.

My family went to my little league games, but by the time I was a teenager, they were nowhere in sight - generally following my younger brother, who was a star from his first game. No one could touch his fastball until he got to the pros. My fastball was so slow that you got two chances at each pitch.

This thread made me a little sad actually. I played little league for five seasons, the other years I didn't sign up because little league actually interfered with the games that my friends and I used to play everyday. We all didn't play the year after they put us on three different teams and it seemed like someone was always playing whenever we tried to get together to play.

Anyway, there is one picture of me from baseball days, a team photo from when I was six! I got nothing else, no one taking any pictures. I was an all-star twice, pitched all but one year...yet one team photo is all that ever existed. Some family I got!

great pics
 

Erick, your an animal!:)

LOL! I am lucky that my dad liked taking photos of my games. Brings back memories!

This day in History
 

The only future Major Leaguer I ever played against was future Phillies pitcher, Pat Combs. I was a sophomore outfield defensive replacement and I faced him one time and worked a walk before he struck out the side.

The pic I posted is from a scrapbook that all the moms put together and gave to all the players at the end of the season. I had it with the binders of my 1959 topps near set that I collected back then. I posted it because I think it looks like a cross between 1978 Topps Pete Rose and e98 Mack.

simpler times
 

Life was ALL baseball and football back in the mid-90's at Woodside HS.

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Look, no pictures in 1954, when I was 13 years old. My Dad coached this team in the "Boondocks", all neighborhood kids. Handmade uniforms and bats and balls contributed by the local bar. I will post the original Jersey later.

Here is the scorebook and one of the games. Scanned the game where I had 2 hits, didn't happen that often. Maples, batting 2nd.

Joe

Time Line
 

First shot - July 1966. Palisades Park vs. Englewood in Babe Ruth State Tournament. Beat them, but lost to Ocean County in the semi-finals.

Second shot - April 1969. Spring practice Bergen Catholic HS.

Third shot - November 1972. Willams College vs. Amherst College. Beat Amherst on their home turf for our third straight Little Three crown.

Very cool photos Kevin..

Was that Manny Sanguillen behind the plate in 1966?

It Wasn't Manny...
 

...but at age 15 he was likely as big! My recollection is that he hit a shot off our starting pitcher that probably burned up in reentry! Fortunately for us, the rest of their team hit like Mario Mendoza! :)

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1972 NAIA Playoffs held in Turnpike Stadium which was the original home of the Texas Rangers. Now torn-down to make way for the Ballpark in Arlington.

My kids noticed two things about these pictures:

- Was anybody there?
- Your hair was that long back in the day?

No baseball glory days for me. If I had my father's eye sight I may have played. He could switch hit for power & average.

My calling was to another sport. The photo was taken my junior year in high school.

Jantz

Jantz,

How much are you pulling these days?

Damn Jantz, that's a lot of weight !!!!

Great photos everyone, cool thread.

Sincerely, Clayton

Gr.eg Nowhere near that amount today. That photo was taken 30 years ago.

Thanks Clayton!


Jantz

Hanging out with Sir Charles late 90's.

I dont have many pictures of me "in action" playing baseball during my glory days but I do have some photos taken right after high school when I worked in the front office for the Cubs. Those were truly my glory days.

I received this shortly after I was hired by the team.....They take photos for all the new employees and soon after started selling these to the general public

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One of my favorite pictures which was taken right outside the press gate at Wrigley with my brother and myself. This was the first year I worked for the team and was able to get free tickets for family and friend. Notice the ticket prices on the sign!!

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Impressive Jantz, 350lbs? as a young buck. What do you lift now?

Whatever Jantz is Lifting...
 

...has to be better than whatever I could muster.

I'm generally a 12 ounce curl kind of guy! ;)

Actually, my mom did call me vampire when I was a little kid, but just because she couldn't get me to go to bed.

Here's an action sequence
 

From 1994 MSBL Fall Classic at Al Lang Field in St. Pete.

1 -- Me and Campy, late 1990's, back in my Trenton Thunder days.
2 -- Late 1980's, Curtis Suburban Lanes, 276 (bucket covered in 5th frame). Never rolled a 300, but could keep a 200 average in a good scratch league.

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Sailing, sailing
 

Campaigning Star Class sailboats on Lake Michigan in the 70s, including the 1976 Olympic Trials. We lost. I'm at the helm in this shot, but spent a lot time in the other position as well. My kid's laugh when I tell them I was an Olympic athlete.

Thanks Joe!

If my calculations are correct, thats 380 lbs. counting the bar. I remember that I was right around a 400 lb. deadlift going into my senior year. I don't lift anymore and haven't for years. After 3 hernia surgeries, it was time to give it up.

Neat photos everyone!


Jantz

395lb 3x45 standard plates, 25, 10, 5 + 45lb standard bar

That takes me back. I threw the shot put and discus all the way through college. I pushed lots and lots of iron those days.

1957 Lawrence, Mass. Little League Champs
 

Wow has it been 55 years ago. Played for Lawrence, Mass. City Champs as a 12 year old. Batted .238 with 2 doubles 6 singles. Definately not a power hitter but the most fun I ever had on a baseball team. Note the all wool uniform, sure made for some hot nights in late july. Wore #14 for the Cubs and that was why Ernie Banks was my favorite player back then. Oh the good ol days... Jim

Good thread, here is me and Chris Chambliss in Wichita, KS on August 21, 1970.
(Chambliss is on the left):) He autographed it for me 20 years later.

I was 'skywalker' a joke nickname, if the sky started 8 inches off of the ground.