Posted By:
FYSJim,
My Mom actually worked at Cherry Lane when I was a kid. My first full box of baseball cards was purchased at the Coleman Pharmacy in 1982. It was a brand new place at the time. Many other cards were purchased in Grocery racks at the supermarket outside of town.
We lived in two different houses in Coleman. One on Fike Rd. between Coleman Rd. and the road that went past the junk yard. The other house was on Barden Rd. which was also off of Coleman Rd on the opposite side of Coleman Rd. that Ruhle's lived on. I always got excited as a kid when we passed the Ruhle house with the "Ruhle" wooden side out by the road. Good memories.
Coleman is a very small town, but it sure did love baseball. I hope baseball is loved in Coleman as much now as it was back then. Since then, I have never lived in any area that has loved baseball as much.