FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[SaintsFAN]

formerd3db,

I got to play with the mesh team colored hats with the white foam from (for writing) and lime green uniforms (used to be forest green) that you had to wash 17 times before wearing.  At least you had unis.

I would have probably stuck with it except for the fastball I stepped into....thinking it was a curve ball....shattered my nose and ruined my confidence in my freshman year of HS.  Everytime I saw a pitch after I came back from that...my lead step was towards the 3rd base dugout and I knew I was done....there weren't sports psychologists in 1991.

[Adam Sayer]

Little Caesars was my team when I was little...they dont even have those around here anymore. I stopped cause my eyesight became terrible and I couldn't see the ball very well once 7th grade came. It didn't help that I played a year up, but once I wasn't good anymore, I stopped and focused on football and wrestling.

[KYGrizzly]

Back when I was in little league (late 1960's) we wore the old white cloth uniforms that you had to turn back in every year. The color of the sponsors name and numbers were bright orange with orange hat. Sponsors name was Community Shop Towel. We did get to keep the hats.

[matblake]

My first three years of LL we were allowed to keep shirts and the hats.  Lenzen Trucking, Rouse's Service Station, and Dymond Glass were the different sponsors.  Then the league figured out they could save money by buying shirts with professional teams on them and having you turn them in every year.  You still got to keep the hat, which was just a generic baseball hat with no logo that was the same color of the team assigned. 

[formerd3db]

SaintsFAN, Sayer, KYGrizz and matblake:

Great memories you guys!  Indeed, it was always great to keep the hat.  I remember as if it were yesterday the excitement when our LL coach announced at the end of the first practice that the hats and shirts had arrived, then brought out the cardboard box in which they were contained and distributed them.  Those small business owners of service stations, pizza places, janitorial services and other businesses, etc. that kindly contributed to our youth by being sponsors deserve a lot of credit.  Unfortunately, it just isn't like that anymore.

BTW, I also know what you mean about being hit by pitched balls, etc.  I've always thought it was very crazy to play the game of baseball with someone throwing an object at your body/head anywhere in excess of 60-100 mph and then us trying to hit with "a stick" - very weird.  On the other hand, I guess you could say that about us "footballers" in running around smashing into each other at full spead - some might even go so far as to say that is kind of like running into a brick wall just for the heck of it!   Anyway, to borrow the late great Bob Hope's patented line... "thanks for the memories" guys. 

[formerd3db]

Also SaintsFAN:  Congrats on your 2000th post here on the boards!

[SaintsFAN]

Thanks, formerd3db....surprisingly, I don't have a speech prepared...but I'd like to thank you for inspiring debate and early arguments with 70, has-Been about how much better TMC was and is than DC....all of the Hanover crew (RIP) about how much TMC belonged in the HCAC...and finally arguments with Sayer talking about how classy his play was (as Coach Perry at Hanover would agree)...and how $hitty MSJ used to be.


But I digress....

Adam, there are still Little Caesars in Cincy.  We have one right nearby here the office.  Though it is considered Clermont County and there's a ton of rednecks, I think the place is actually busy..

[Adam Sayer]

I'm right up there with "Classy" Freddie Blassie.

[SaintsFAN]

formerd3db,

We get to celebrate 2000 again here shortly...somehow I lost 9 posts...  Maybe I'll let this coincide with my birthday coming up on Sunday...  Somehow I'll tie it all in..

[Pat Coleman]

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[dc_has_been]

Let's try to get those 6 back Kevin w/ me saying that DC is better than TMC b/c the HCAC actually let us into the conference. 

[M and L]

Ya, but 1994 wasn't a bad year thou

[SaintsFAN]

Let's try to get those 6 back Kevin w/ me saying that DC is better than TMC b/c the HCAC actually let us into the conference. 

haha....ok, touche.....but Thomas More is quite happy in a very, very competitive conference (top to bottom...no weeks off).

Coach Psconda messed things up by throwing up the white flag in the 4th Quarter in 2001...then saying they'd never be able to "compete with TMC" to a coach after the game.. We haven't played since..

[SaintsFAN]

but don't let that chase you &uckers away....

Where is everyone?

We celebrated my 31st on Friday night at Jefferson Hall in Newport on the Levee.  Wow....there were pictures taken, unfortunately.

Never let chicks take your picture after they've force-fed you shots for the previous 4 hours.

[Adam Sayer]

I fly out to Cali on Thursday. Lookin forward to the "scenery." I had to help the Ol Lady move her cousins on Saturday. I wish I had an excuse not to 

Been working on the golf game so hopefully, Kevin, I can join you on a TMC golf outing sometime in the future.