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re: What is the conversation like between baseball players on opposing teams?
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:41 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:41 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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by the time my younger brother was playing in the mid 80's
dude, there's a good chance that you and I have done battle on the diamond
ETA: rethought the math, I still think I was before your time by a year or so
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 5:44 pm
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Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:47 pm to 777Tiger
Could be.
First two pitchers I faced in HS were Eric Barkley of Byrd and Tom Jones of Ruston. Jones went on to play QB at Arkansas.
First two pitchers I faced in HS were Eric Barkley of Byrd and Tom Jones of Ruston. Jones went on to play QB at Arkansas.
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Could be.
all of the Bossier teams were badass when I was in HS, the legion teams were basically all star teams, one night we started a game with the Bossier Legion team and a guy named Roger Cyr was sitting on the bench, he was the 4A MVP that year, I was doing a Rodney Dangerfield with the tug on the collar and rolling eyes
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:58 pm to 777Tiger
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all of the Bossier teams were badass when I was in HS, the legion teams were basically all star teams, one night we started a game with the Bossier Legion team and a guy named Roger Cyr was sitting on the bench, he was the 4A MVP that year,
We probably knew some of he same people, just a few years apart.
The Bossier team was an all star team and was the only team from Bossier Parish in those days, I believe. Always a powerhouse. Combined Benton, Airline, Bossier and Parkway.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:01 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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We probably knew some of he same people, just a few years apart.
you must have been pretty damn good!
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:01 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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They guy on the far right, back row is former LSU assistant and Alabama HC Jim Wells.
I never put 2 and 2 together on him until he did an interview in the Birmingham news talking about how much he learned from Mac Sanford. I looked at his bio and went "duh".
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:06 pm to ForeLSU
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I never put 2 and 2 together on him until he did an interview in the Birmingham news talking about how much he learned from Mac Sanford. I looked at his bio and went "duh".
He was a student teacher at Airline while I was there. Asst. coach on the baseball team. He was a crazy character back then, we used to go over to his house and hang out.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:08 pm to 777Tiger
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you must have been pretty damn good!
Decent. My younger brother was better, he hit one out of SPAR stadium when he was 15. Had a 90 mph fastball and played basketball on the Airline team that went 30-0 in regular season. Larry Robson played on that team. Larry lived with my parents for a while when he was in middle school. Went on to play in the NBA.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:15 pm to 777Tiger
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was that after he hit what turned out to be the game winning RBI single?
No, I think it was the first game. We beat them pretty badly. It was probably a Cresse walk because if I remember correctly he only had 2 hits the whole tourney (a wall banger double and the single to win it all). Anyway, the Texas 1b would fall/kneel on our guys on pick moves. Don't remember who but earlier in the game he jacked up someone's shoulder from our squad. Cresse got on later and was jawing with the 1b something to the effect of let's see you try that shite with me, etc, etc.
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:19 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Decent
sounds like you're being modest
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SPAR stadium
haven't heard that name in a while, I hit the lf scoreboard once, and went over the left foul pole once
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:20 pm to 777Tiger
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haven't heard that name in a while, I hit the lf scoreboard once, and went over the left foul pole once
Played there once and was really glad when we left.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:50 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Played there once and was really glad when we left.
that was a bad 'hood but that park in Bossier where the Easter tournament was wasn't much better, had its own green monster, can't recall the name, on Shed road
ETA: Walbrook Park?
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:57 pm to 777Tiger
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that was a bad 'hood but that park in Bossier where the Easter tournament wasn't much better, had its own green monster, can't recall the name, on Shed road
Walbrook, played there most of my life. We called it the "wire monster". It was somewhat within low-income housing but wasn't really too bad of an area in the 70's. Playing at Green Oaks was always interesting though...
Posted on 4/12/15 at 7:04 pm to 777Tiger
Walbrook? 
Hell, we grew up there. Would pay baseball every day til the parks crew ran us off early afternoon to prep the fields. I lived within walking distance.
The Apartments around the park were kind of shady, but Glendale was a decent working class hood. Lots of good kids came up through there.
Hell, we grew up there. Would pay baseball every day til the parks crew ran us off early afternoon to prep the fields. I lived within walking distance. The Apartments around the park were kind of shady, but Glendale was a decent working class hood. Lots of good kids came up through there.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 7:08 pm to ForeLSU
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Playing at Green Oaks was always interesting though..
Yeah. It was. Felt like if things went wrong, there was nowhere to run except to the woods. No fence around the park either.
Natchitoches Central too. We beat them one year on a questionable call and their fans were rocking the bus.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 7:24 pm to RogerTheShrubber
had a gun pulled on me in Springhill while I was catching, by an old lady sitting behind the backstop, had the entire crowd of BTW crash the floor when we beat then at basketball at their gym our senior year, had the entire football coaching staff there as security until we got on the bus, rocks/bricks through the windows, typical travel ball stuff
Posted on 4/12/15 at 7:34 pm to 777Tiger
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had the entire crowd of BTW
Never played there, heard horror stories.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 11:10 pm to 777Tiger
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usually from behind the plate
I've been told that Adrian Antonini was particularly nasty behind the plate. And wasn't it Antonini who came out of the bullpen and walked over to a base-runner and told him he wasn't going anywhere?
I also want to recall Todd Walker saying in the post season after a double "how'd you like that shite?" to a baseman.
Of course this was all over two decades ago so it is possible that I'm miss-remembering a few things.
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