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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Yep, you caught me... I fixed it... Bar Harbor must win and Mystic must lose... then the Mariners get demoted... they lost both games to the Acadians this year.

Glad to help out!

[Eugene Church]

MY LIFE IN 1960
EC's Life's Not So Nifty in '60

My life wasn't so bad in the Air Force... looking back on it, it was pretty good... think it was better than being in the US Army... if you remember, I served under the US Army when I was studying Russian at the US Army Language School in Monterey, California... they had a tendency to harassed rather than make you feel comfortable with your life in the service... the Air Force did a good job with good accommodations and making the experience as pleasant as possible... it wasn't very strict with the military rules and regulations like the Army... the Army seemed to enjoy making it tough for you... the Air Force was liking working as a civilian, but being in the service... they even hired civilian employees to do the food service... Airmen didn't have to do KP any longer... that was nice.

Well, now it is late in June, 1960 and time to check the Billboard Hot 100 songs... the Everly Brothers' 5-week run at #1 ended... on July 27 cute Connie Francis took over the top spot with a country-flavored song, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool".

So all you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, should saddle up with EC and hit the dance floor and do a little bit of two-steppin' to the twang of cute little Connie... don't ya think she sure is cute as the dickens on the tv video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5imvoRZ7E

[Eugene Church]

Monday, July 4, 1960

CHERRYWOOD TIES GRIN HILL FOR 1ST PLACE IN SECONDARY LEAGUE
This past weekend Grin Hill missed a golden opportunity to nab the South Island Secondary League title and win promotion up to the Supreme League next year... all the Smileys
needed was a victory, but they didn't get it... the Cherrywood Stouts are still in the running, heading into the final Sunday of play... same scenario, all Grin Hill needs is a victory...
they will win the tiebreaker should the Smileys and Stouts end the year tied for first place.

It was the jolly Green Giants of Joliet that caused the chaos... they tripped up Grin Hill 5-2, while Cherrywood knocked off the Pelham Oaks 9-5... in other action it was Littleville
trouncing the St. Dominic Saints 11-8 and Billings nipping the Parkland Perfectos 5-4.




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MY LIFE IN 2023
EC's Life's Is Filled with Glee in '23

"Wit, Quips and Quotes from the Diamond Minds"

As you know EC have never been an avid reader of books... now late in life, I am getting a taste of what I missed -- the reading enjoyment of good books.

Really enjoyed The Baseball Hundred written by Joe Posnanski... it was very well-written with objectivity, research and humor... it was thoroughly entertaining and informative.

Also just finished musician Charlie Daniels' autobiography Never Look At The Empty Seats... love that title... Charlie, a progressive country rocker, always told his band they were there to give the folks who showed up a great show, regardless of how large or small the crowd was... it rang a bell in my life... I'm not Charlie Daniels, but I do play for 10 to 40 people at Nursing Homes 8 times a month...I talk to them about the songs and artists, talk to them about my life and dance and sing with the residents... it always gets me down when on rare occasions only a few show up due to the fact that the activities directors at the homes don't go and get the residents and bring them to the dining hall where I play my library of recorded hit songs on my high quality stereo PA system... no matter how large or small the attendance is, I try real hard to treat it like it is a full crowd... now, like Charlie Daniels, EC never looks at the empty seats... one time at a veterans home, no one showed up... it was just me and the PA system all by our lonesome... I just started playing music... one lady came in and sat down... and she only came for coffee, not to listen to music... I just began to play songs for her... soon a few more folks came in... when it was over there were 20 residents present, tapping their toes, clapping their hands and singing along in their wheelchairs with the songs they grew up on as teenagers and college kids... I probably played some songs they had to listen to when their own kids were growing up and listening to "their awful kind of music"... despite that most of the them are in wheelchairs, EC also dances with them... I take their hands and we swing and sway to the rhythm of the songs... some of them will move their feet to the music, too... yep, that was a rockin' boppin' great time... one of the best times I ever had... and it started off with a lot of empty seats.

Thank you, Charlie Daniels.

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My goodness gracious... 418 views today.
New record... old one was 360.

Thanks to each and every one of you.

For just the second time South Island beat the Islandian Pro Alliance today.
The IPA had 288 views.

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Monday, July 4, 1960

SMILEYS AND STOUTS STILL TIED, MEET IN TITLE PLAYOFF NEXT SUNDAY
Like true champions Grin Hill and Cherrywood came through when the season was on the line... both clubs were victors Sunday afternoon
and they are still deadlocked for first place in the South Island Secondary League... that means they will tangle next Sunday for the league
title and promotion to the South Island Supreme League.

Grin Hill spanked the St. Dominic Saints 9-4 and Cherrywood pulled out a victory 6-4 over the Littleville Supermen... in other action Billings
nicked the Joliet Green Giants 3-2 and Parkland routed the Pelham Oaks 12-6.

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MY LIFE IN 2023
EC's Life's Is Filled with Glee in '23

"Wit, Quips and Quotes from the Diamond Minds"

For EC's current edification and education is a scholarly book about "base ball"- that's the way it was spelled in the early years of the game... hopefully EC will enjoy it, too... it's written by a real scholars, Harold Seymour and his wife Dorothy Seymour Mills... for the first time in history, historians wrote about baseball... previously, it was done by sportswriters, many of which did not do a lot of research... Joe Posnanski was an exception to this in his books about The Baseball Hundred and his Buck O'Neill book... back in the 1940s, Harold Seymour got the idea of studying baseball as a subject for his doctoral dissertation at Cornell University... he and his wife, also a noted baseball historian and researcher, wrote a 3-volume set entitled Baseball - Volume 1: The Early Years (1960), Volume 2: The Golden Age (1971) and Volume 3: The People's Game (1990).

So far, it is a tedious, scholarly book, but very informative... not any humor at all... it is kind of mundane and dull... yep, that's what it is, but I will suffer through it to get possibly the "real" history of baseball... as historians, the Seymours only wants the facts... like Sgt. Joe Friday of the 1950s Dragnet TV show they only want the "facts ma'am, just the facts"... there is no hearsay in this book... they note a lot of baseball history is myth and not true... we don't really know who codified baseball rules and created the sport... it wasn't Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York... he made no mention in his writings about the game of baseball or of ever playing base ball as a kid... Doubleday was not athletic at all.

Interesting baseball facts:
The earliest record of baseball in America the Seymours found was in the journal of a Revolutionary War soldier, George Ewing, who tells of playing a game of "base" at Valley Forge on April 7, 1778... later a diary entry of a Princeton student in 1786 briefly described a game of "baste ball" on the campus.

The first organized game that much is known about was arranged by the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York... this was a group of gentlemen that got together to socialize and exercise... it was a social club or a country club with strict membership rules and regulations... social intercourse was more important than the athletic competition... the Knickerbockers first match was played June 19, 1846 at Elysian Fields in New York City...the opponent was the New York Base Ball Club... the rules at this time called for the game to be over when one team reached 21 aces (runs)... the two clubs played only 4 innings and the New York Base Ball Club thumped the Knickerbockers 23-1... for some reason the winner scored 2 more runs than necessary.

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Monday, July 11, 1960

GRIN HILL SMILEYS SMASH CHERRYWOOD STOUTS FOR SECONDARY LEAGUE PENNANT
No doubt about it, the Grin Hill Smileys really made an emphatic statement in the South Island Secondary League title game... before
an overflowing home crowd the Smileys smashed the stunned Cherrywood Stouts 16-5 Sunday afternoon to wrap up the league
championship and gained promotion to the Supreme League next season.

1960 South Island Secondary League Final Standings