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

[t206hound]

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:

[Buythatcard]

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.

[drc]

Different sport, senior year in high school

[RCMcKenzie]

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[sdkammeyer]

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.

[pcoz]

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.

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by drc

Different sport, senior year in high school

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

[Runscott]

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.

[z28jd]

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

[itjclarke]

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

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[MacDice]

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?).

[bigwinnerx]

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)

[RCMcKenzie]

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.

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by mrvster

Erick, your an animal!

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

[kkkkandp]

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.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

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?

[kkkkandp]

...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!

[seinbigd]

Click on the above file to open.

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?

[Jantz]

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

[Clutch-Hitter]

Jantz,

How much are you pulling these days?

[teetwoohsix]

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

Great photos everyone, cool thread.

Sincerely, Clayton

[Jantz]

Originally Posted by Clutch-Hitter

Jantz,

How much are you pulling these days?

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

Thanks Clayton!


Jantz