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Eugene Church · 02-03-2023, 11:25 AM

MY LIFE IN 2023
EC's Life is Full of Gladness and Glee in '23

Yip, Yip Hooray... EC is finally happy with his life... yep, my life is good today.

Shame to say, EC has never been much of a reader in my life... much to my detriment... I missed a lot... sad to say I only read the sports pages and comic books in my youth... the sports pages greatly improved my arithmetic ... yep, I had to learn to do the ERAs and BAs... thank goodness, I did that... EC learned a lot of words and built up a pretty good vocabulary in my young years... didn't read much more than the newspapers since then, which was very profitable to me and my collection of information and knowledge... in the last few years I discovered the world of books... began reading baseball books (of course) and books about country music and country stars (of course, EC was a DJ for 32 years)... Ball Four by Jim Bouton is one of my favorites... it showed the real inside of baseball and its players... day-to-day struggles on the field and off the field... my favorite player Gary Bell was featured prominently in it... I knew him in the late 50s when I was a bat boy for the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association... also loved The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski... he traveled a year with Negro Leaguer Buck O'Neal, the ambassador of baseball, made famous in Ken Burns' Baseball documentary... thoroughly enjoyed both books and about 10-15 others

Have just begun Joe Posnanski's The Baseball 100... his ranking of the top 100 baseball players in history... he included the Negro Leaguers and some Japanese players... I have only covered #100 to #85 so far... and I highly recommend it...Posnanski not only knows baseball, but his writing and wit make the words and the stories flow... same as he did in the Buck O'Neal book.

Sadly, Buck O'Neal never knew he made the Baseball Hall of Fame.... he died and was posthumously voted in... a terrible shame.

Come on Hall of Fame, put Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame before it's too late... yep, he was a jerk... and he bet on baseball... but he has paid for that... forgive him and put him in the Hall of Fame... he was a heck of a hitter and player... he deserves it... yep, Pete Rose certainly deserves to be in the Cooperstown Hall of Fame.

02-03-2023, 11:25 AM	#1171
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,911	MY LIFE IN 2023 EC's Life is Full of Gladness and Glee in '23 Yip, Yip Hooray... EC is finally happy with his life... yep, my life is good today. Shame to say, EC has never been much of a reader in my life... much to my detriment... I missed a lot... sad to say I only read the sports pages and comic books in my youth... the sports pages greatly improved my arithmetic ... yep, I had to learn to do the ERAs and BAs... thank goodness, I did that... EC learned a lot of words and built up a pretty good vocabulary in my young years... didn't read much more than the newspapers since then, which was very profitable to me and my collection of information and knowledge... in the last few years I discovered the world of books... began reading baseball books (of course) and books about country music and country stars (of course, EC was a DJ for 32 years)... Ball Four by Jim Bouton is one of my favorites... it showed the real inside of baseball and its players... day-to-day struggles on the field and off the field... my favorite player Gary Bell was featured prominently in it... I knew him in the late 50s when I was a bat boy for the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association... also loved The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski... he traveled a year with Negro Leaguer Buck O'Neal, the ambassador of baseball, made famous in Ken Burns' Baseball documentary... thoroughly enjoyed both books and about 10-15 others Have just begun Joe Posnanski's The Baseball 100... his ranking of the top 100 baseball players in history... he included the Negro Leaguers and some Japanese players... I have only covered #100 to #85 so far... and I highly recommend it...Posnanski not only knows baseball, but his writing and wit make the words and the stories flow... same as he did in the Buck O'Neal book. Sadly, Buck O'Neal never knew he made the Baseball Hall of Fame.... he died and was posthumously voted in... a terrible shame. Come on Hall of Fame, put Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame before it's too late... yep, he was a jerk... and he bet on baseball... but he has paid for that... forgive him and put him in the Hall of Fame... he was a heck of a hitter and player... he deserves it... yep, Pete Rose certainly deserves to be in the Cooperstown Hall of Fame. Last edited by Eugene Church; 02-04-2023 at 08:36 PM.