Thanksgiving always brings back especially fond and warm memories of my early childhood. The time frame for these recollections is the period of my life from age five or six till the beginning of adolescence, when my parents apparently became either aliens or lepers, driving a need to distance myself from them. But from the…
Category: SPORTS
Frankie Loria (50 years remembered)
Frank Paul Loria. I hope the name still resonates through the halls and annals of Virginia Tech football. I am sure it does. Frankie, as he was known in my current part of the world (as I will explain later), was a 2-time All-American safety at Tech in the mid-1960’s – he played during the autumns of…
The Twilight Zone (Baseball 2020 style)
“It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ‘The Twilight Zone’”. Intro to the U.S. television series that ran from October 1959 through June…
Colonial Heights (a lesson in fairness)
Colonial Heights. To most young boys growing up in Christiansburg, Virginia in the early 1960’s, these 2 words were magical, almost mythical. It meant one thing – the Boys Invitational Baseball (BIB) Tournament sponsored by the Optimist Club of Colonial Heights, Virginia. Started in 1957, the tournament involved 16 Little League teams (11 and 12…
Bud-Hoo 