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| Feb. 7, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney Dave and Wes, please just plan on playing with my team. Some of my players are not available until Montgomery. Everyone, cross your fingers for good weather! Still time for others to join us. Thanks |
| Feb. 7, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Old As Dirt, But Young At Heart. Jim, there you go again shooting stuff! Bullets, arrows, chickens, and now apples! You are right about the pitching in with the hay. Most would say sayonara; Most have never seen a hay field. I think picking cotton may be worse. I worked one day for my uncle in his cotton field. 14 hours, 99 lbs (I wasn't very good at it). He paid me a penny per pound. Handed me a dollar and said "keep the change". |
| Feb. 2, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: starting 50 team, what positions do i need to be strongest, etc. Simple solution: 10 guys who hit like Einstein and for platooning--10 guys who play defense like Dirty! (Lord, forgive me, I could not help myself.) |
| Feb. 2, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Old As Dirt, But Young At Heart. Webbie, in the late 60's, we would cram as many friends in a car as possible (6-8) pool our resources, go to Jack's Hamburgers, and order 100 burgers (15 cents), cokes and fries for everyone. It would really freak them out! My wife and I met at a Valentine's Sock-Hop in High School. |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney I do have two 65+ teams in the tourney; if others would be interested, please call (two 50's, two 55's, five 60's as well). |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney No problem, Wes. |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Old As Dirt, But Young At Heart. My mother is one of 10 children. My mother and grandmother delivered babies pretty much simultaneously. I have an uncle 8 mo. older and an uncle and aunt who are younger and the same age as 2 of my brothers. The story is told that Grandmother delivered her 10th child at home in the a.m., then baked 100 homemade bisquits for supper. |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney Hey Dave, I will be contacting all of the teams on Monday before the tourney. I will ask them if anyone is needed and let you know. Take care. |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Old As Dirt, But Young At Heart. A good friend, Russ Arthur, had sent this topic to me. I thought it would be of interest to us. I appreciate the responses. It is amazing how much has changed over the last 50-6o years! I was the oldest of 4 sons. We lived with parents and grandparents. Indoor plumbing and a t.v. arrived at our house in 1955 (I was 6 yrs old). |
| Feb. 1, 2010 southpaw | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Tennessee AAA Team looking for pitcher Hey Hombre, any chance of your team coming to Bham on Feb. 27? |
| Jan. 30, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Old As Dirt, But Young At Heart. Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously... Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. ! 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it..' By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it : Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow). We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people... I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Pizzas were not delivered to our home.... But milk was... All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning. Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive. If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend : My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom. 1.Candy cigarettes 2.Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 3.Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4.Party lines on the telephone 5.Newsreels before the movie 6.TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate] ) 7.Peashooters 8. Howdy Doody 9. 45 RPM records 10.Hi-fi's 11. Metal ice trays with lever 12. Blue flashbulb 13.Cork popguns 14. Studebakers 15. Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 11-15 =You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends.... |
| Jan. 29, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney Joe, I am going to give every team 3 softballs, included in entry fee. However, a team can use those or any of their own as long as they qualy. I will simply have others available if a team does not have any of their own or just wants to buy more new ones. Thanks. |
| Jan. 29, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney Hey Bruce, primary division will be by age. 50's and 55's will be in one pool, 60's in another, and then 65's. Most of the teams only want the 3 games guaranteed. We will take one team off each field or whatever works best in order to go to a single elim, so that there will be just one champion and runner-up. Thanks |
| Jan. 28, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: For the snow bound and those who like laughter. Long but funny. Taits, that is truly hilarious. Have shared it with several family members and friends; all with same reaction--laughed til sides hurt. Thanks, Steve |
| Jan. 28, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney I now have 11 teams. At the new site, we will be able to hit any senior qualified ball that is 44 cor. 375 comp. MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED OR IDENTIFIABLE. Looking for more teams! |
| Jan. 26, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney I have 10 teams. Can take up to 20. Thanks |
| Jan. 26, 2010 southpaw | Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: Alabama player looking for a 50's team Hey Robert, I see that I tried to give you a few more horsepower! Just as in David's case, Robert should be given serious consideration. Very good ballplayer and even better man. Very good fielding pitcher and solid hitter. Robert, I am sure we will run across each other's path during the season. Take care. |
| Jan. 25, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Date Change for Birmingham, Al. Warm-up Tourney I now have 9 teams. |
| Jan. 22, 2010 southpaw | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Update on 60/over team out of Bham, Al. I have enough players! Now, if I only had a sponsor!! Tourney on Feb. 27th is also looking up. 8 teams committed and several have inquired and will let me know soon. |
| Jan. 21, 2010 southpaw | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Just Curious! "Rick and Bubba" (radio personalities) make frozen turkeys fly in Bham every Thanksgiving. |
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