OT: Your Baseball Playing Days

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by David W

3 memories. I played for a Christian high school in Peoria, Illinois.

When I was on the JV baseball team in 1978 we played Spalding Academy (A Catholic HS). The star player for Spalding was Joe Girardi, who had quite a rep in HS, and it was well known he was going to Northwestern. Their varsity thumped our varsity pretty good as I recall.

In probably 1980 we played Yates City HS, which now no longer exists. Their home field was the town park. There was a tree in left center about 250 feet from home. Hit the tree = ground rule double. I bet there were 10 ground rule doubles.

Here is link to now closed high schools in Illinois - Yates City RIP

http://www.illinoishsglorydays.com/id68.html

Then at the NAIA level I played 1 year of baseball and got to make a diving catch in left field to end an inning. That was my college high light - haha.

David,

Did you ever play The Pekin Chinks. I'm from Pekin and yes, that really was the name.

Kmac