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re: What were your baseball league names growing up?
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:02 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:02 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
My mom told me she used to sell souvenirs, cigars, cigarettes at the old Sportsman Park during the St. Louis Browns home games when she was a young teenager.
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Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:09 pm to WG_Dawg
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DIXIE YOUTH
Same.
We had no tee ball or cowch pitch growing up. The youngest division was called Texas League (at least for us) and started in the spring of 2nd grade. Texas league was 2 full years. Then Wmerican, National and Legion. High school after that. Virtually no travel ball except for the all-star teams which played up through the LLWS if lucky.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:09 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
tee ball, mustang, bronco, babe ruth
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:31 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Blue jean league (Tommy Henry ran the program)
Dixie
Legion
Dixie
Legion
Posted on 4/11/22 at 5:59 pm to Clark14
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There were a lot of kids in our neighborhood and we played ball on the school playground. Didn’t get to play organized ball and high school didn’t have a team back then.
I hate I missed out, but we had fun.
God bless you my friend
if you had a thrower and a batter and some fielders you had a game
Posted on 4/11/22 at 6:10 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Dixie Youth and the coach pitch was called the Confederate League.
The logo was the Confederate battle flag with little baseballs instead of stars. Cute
The logo was the Confederate battle flag with little baseballs instead of stars. Cute
Posted on 4/11/22 at 6:22 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
In Meridian, MS, we had Dixie Youth. The various levels were: Tee ball, coach pitch, minor league, major league, Babe Ruth, and American Legion.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 6:34 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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American Legion
A million years ago I used to love watching those games. I guess I’ve always had an affinity for dudes in a baseball uniform.
We lived close to the ball fields in my town and as my mom used to say I pretty much grew up there during the summers since I had two quite a bit older brothers who played and then I did too. Fun times, before travel ball was a big thing.
I don’t think us gals had league names, just by age groups. Always getting the short end of the stick. Where was the title ix type of thing then?
This post was edited on 4/11/22 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:00 pm to piggilicious
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piggilicious
you kind of know I grew up close to you and I'm imagining you're either a Devil Dog or close to there
story:
my dad was coaching high schoolers against the team in your hometown and I was in the dugout at age 7 or so. Those frickers gave me Copenhagen and my head started spinning a minute later. I took off running out of the dugout and closelined myself on a metal railing and started vomiting in the dirt. The high school boys laughed their asses off until my dad got time out called and came to handle it.
if I remember correctly, which I probably don't, those high school boys regreted that
the one who gave me the Copenhagen went on to play in the single A minor leagues
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:08 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
You’re not very wrong. Ha.
How old are you? I wish I’d been there then, I think I’d still remember seeing that.
True story, a gal I played ball with dipped when we were kids. She doesn’t now but somehow someway when we were playing at 7-9 years old or whatever the earliest was at that time and she freaking dipped!
How old are you? I wish I’d been there then, I think I’d still remember seeing that.
True story, a gal I played ball with dipped when we were kids. She doesn’t now but somehow someway when we were playing at 7-9 years old or whatever the earliest was at that time and she freaking dipped!
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:12 pm to piggilicious
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How old are you?
I'm not saying here, but I've paid attention and I know I'm 6 or 7 years older than you
so you were 1 or not born yet or something
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:16 pm to piggilicious
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True story, a gal I played ball with dipped when we were kids. She doesn’t now but somehow someway when we were playing at 7-9 years old or whatever the earliest was at that time and she freaking dipped!
that's crazy, every time I ever tried chewing or dipping, I puked my guts out
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:17 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Teeball, coach pitch, minors, majors and then dixie boys.
JV, B-team and Varsity.
JV, B-team and Varsity.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:18 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
DYB
Yanks
Tigers
Cubs
Reds
Yanks
Tigers
Cubs
Reds
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:21 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Oh ok. Now I’m curious where you’re from. Motown has/had 6-7 thousand folks- are you from a metropolis like Conway or Russellville or smaller like Atkins, Pottsville, Perryville or one of the surrounding little communities around here that would refer to Motown as ‘town’.
or one of the surrounding little communities around here that would refer to Motown as ‘town’. Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:23 pm to geauxbrown
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geauxbrown
I umpired some pitching machine ball for 9 year olds or whatever in Ruston in my early 20's
you put the ball in the machine and then you umpire the midfield and outfield
there were some former NFL quarterbacks running around that park who were baseball dads - all good dudes
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:26 pm to piggilicious
This post was edited on 4/11/22 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:29 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Mustang, Bronco, Pony and Colt
This is what we had in my Oklahoma town in the late '60s and early '70s.
We had a competing league that was called Kids Incorporated. The had 8andunder, 10andunder, 12andunder, Youth.
The also offered a better deal on retrieved foul balls than our league did.
I would go to their games just to collect foul balls. They would let you have candy or gum instead of just a watered down cup of ice and soda pop.
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:29 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Done.
Off subject, the tornado warning sirens are going off. :(
Off subject, the tornado warning sirens are going off. :(
Posted on 4/11/22 at 7:36 pm to piggilicious
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Done.
Off subject, the tornado warning sirens are going off. :(
get to your safe point
love you
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