Home Plate – Stay At 17 Inches In Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA’s convention. While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of […]
I was eleven years old when this was published. My Mom must not have read this publication, because things certainly weren’t that way in our household. You have to admit though, things have really changed……….. And for the better.
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Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick selected his picks for the 100 greatest songs of our time, though he admits it’s a rather personal list that’s heavy on that particular decade. The criteria: A great song evokes “ideas and emotions” and assumes “a kind of intrinsic life of its own,” McCormick says. I have 43 of these
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I lived in Sherman Oaks, in the San Fernando Valley, and got my drivers license in 1959. Because it was only about 30-miles away, one of the places I would go to frequently during the summer was the Santa Monica beach and Pacific Ocean Park. Wink Martindale would do his Dance Party shows from there,
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In 1955, when I was twelve, we moved into this 1-bath, 3-bedroom house that my parents had built on the corner of Huston and Willis streets in Sherman Oaks. I don’t know why it has a Huston St. address because the house actually faces Willis street. If you look at the far right corner you
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