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10-03-2019, 02:16 PM | #923 |
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Monday, May 21, 1951 JOLIET, AVALON TIED AGAIN IN 2ND DIVISION The torrid title race continues in the North Island Recreational League... Avalon eked out a 2-1 win in 11 innings over third place Theodore, while West Chester was upsetting Joliet 7-3... now the Oldtimers and Green Giants are again tied for first place with identical 9-3 records... in the battle for last place, Kinston emerged with a 4-3 victory over Wafford and moved out of the cellar. Last edited by Eugene Church; 10-03-2019 at 02:23 PM. |
10-06-2019, 07:34 PM | #927 |
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Saturday, May 26, 1951 BIG BALLGAME IN NIRL FIRST DIVISION SUNDAY Something's got to give tomorrow afternoon in North Island Recreational League action at Stockdale City Park... the third place Mustangs will attempt to expand their winning streak to seven games and put a stop to the first place Dutton Coyotes' four-game winning string... the second place Jackson Jackalopes will be at home facing last place Union Heights and the fifth place Kofa Kings will be traveling to New Yerby to tangle with the third place Yankees. AVALON, JOLIET, CO-LEADERS IN SECOND DIVISION None of the top three clubs are matched up this weekend in the NIRL Second Division... Co-leaders Avalon and Joliet and third place Theodore will be playing the lesser lights of the division... the Avalon Oldtimers have the toughest task, playing on the road in West Chester opposed by the fourth place Comets... Avalon will be trying to extend their winning skein to five games... the Joliet Green Giants will take on the fifth place Kinston Firebirds... and the third place Theodore Bobcats engage the last place Wafford Eagles in Wafford. Last edited by Eugene Church; 10-06-2019 at 07:36 PM. |
10-09-2019, 05:47 PM | #928 |
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Monday, May 28, 1951 COYOTES, JACKS AND YANKS WINNERS All of the first division teams won their games yesterday afternoon in the North Islandian Recreational League First Division... in a clash of two redhot teams, first place Dutton stopped fourth place Stockdale 8-4 and extending their winning streak to five games... the Mustangs had won six in a row... the Jackson Jackalopes returned to their winning ways by clobbering last place Union Heights 11-4... and third place New Yerby took care of the Kofa Kings 5-2. |
10-10-2019, 04:15 PM | #932 |
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Monday, May 28, 1951 TOP TEAMS TRIUMPHANT IN NIRL SECOND DIVISION In the North Island Recreational League Second Division action Sunday afternoon, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer... the two co-leaders both came away winners... Avalon survived a tough duel with fourth place West Chester, finally nipping them 5-4 for their sixth successive win... Joliet also had a fight on its hands for awhile from the fifth place Kinston Firebirds, but they pulled away in the late innings for a 7-4 victory... and third place Theodore finally put away last place Wafford 6-3. |
10-13-2019, 05:58 PM | #936 |
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MY LIFE IN 1951
EC's Just Having Fun in '51 In 1951 when I went to drop a nickel into the jukebox, it was filled with great country music, real country music by Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Red Foley, Ernest Tubb and Lefty Frizzell. However, real country music is dead in modern times, ruined by rock and pop singers singing bad rock and pop songs and trying to pass it off as country. Here is a link for a song by two real country legends, George Strait and Alan Jackson that tell the sad saga of "Murder on Music Row"... record companies took all of the country elements out of country music in the late 1990s and early 2000s... they killed real country music. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...3043&FORM=VIRE Just watched Ken Burns' Country Music documentary. (about 15-16 hours long).. since I was mainly a country disc jockey for 32 years I was looking forward to seeing it.... overall it was good... I would give it a 7 on a 10 scale... but it had several blatant flaws: Number one flaw: It didn't have a featured portion spotlighting the biggest country star of the 1950s, Webb Pierce... he had more number one songs in that decade and more hits songs than anybody... that was a huge oversight. Flaw number two: Ray Price was a country legend in the 50s, 60s, 70s and had legendary signature songs, but got very little mention... "Heartaches by the Numbers", "City Lights" and "For the Good Times" are country classics... he would have been a great commentator... he lived, breathed and sung country music and made hits for 20 years. Flaw number three: Jim Reeves should have been given more credit for the Nashville Sound... his velvet smooth baritone voice spread pop country to middle-of-the-road radio stations in the 60s that greatly expanded the country music audience... because of Jim Reeves the pop audience found out they liked country music, too. It featured too many Rock people talking about country music... Elvis Costello ain't even a Rock star, much less a country historian and country music expert. Bob Dylan, a great songwriter and a big album seller in the Rock field, did not have much influence in Country Music and wasn't played by country radio stations... he did influence Johnny Cash... and he did record albums in Nashville... but that was about it. John Cash was a country legend and I love him to death, but he was featured entirely too much in the documentary... his last few albums done by a rock producer were never played on country radio... rock and pop people bought them... not country folks... sadly by this time Johnny had lost his wonderful distinctive voice and was just too old to be recording. Johnny Cash's daughter, Roseanne Cash, had a few years of big hits in the 80s, but was featured too much as a commentator... ditto for her ex-husband, Rodney Crowell... both are talented musicians with good careers, but they did not rate so much time on the documentary. Marty Stuart is a great bluegrass musician and a fairly good singer... but he really only had limited success on country radio... Stuart knows country music, but did not deserve to be featured so much on the Country Music documentary... there are many, many others that should have bee used before him. I was hoping that Ken Burns would tell us why country music radio has stopped playing country music the last 15 years, but Burns failed to address the issue. Country music is dead and gone... it ain't country no more... no fiddles, no steel guitars... no authentic country twang... no beer-drinking honky tonk songs... Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts are just rock and pop wannabes... they have no country soul. Rock record producers, rock disc jockeys and rock wannabees have ruined country music... Country Radio has no country identity anymore... EC doesn't listen to it anymore.... and I'm not the only one... real country fans just listen to old recordings. Sorry for getting on the soapbox, but I really miss the real country sounds of people like George Jones, Merle Haggard, George Strait, Johnny Cash and Alan Jackson on country radio. Last edited by Eugene Church; 10-13-2019 at 11:09 PM. |
10-13-2019, 06:30 PM | #937 |
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Saturday, June 2, 1951 JACKS, YANKS VIE TOMORROW IN NIRL FIRST DIVISION The only big boys playing each other this weekend in the North Island Recreational League are the second place Jackson Jackalopes (9-4) and the third place New Yerby Yankees (7-6)... the rest of the NIRL First Division schedule pits first place Dutton (10-3) at home against the fifth place Kofa Kings (5-8) and last place Union Heights (2-11) hosting fourth place Stockdale (6-7). Over in the NIRL Second Division, the co-leading Avalon Oldtimers and Joliet Green Giants tangle with lightly-regarded Kinston and Wafford... Avalon (10-3) is at home playing fifth place Kinston (4-9) ... Joliet (10-3) will entertain sixth place Wafford (3-10)... and fourth place West Chester (5-8) will travel to meet the third place Theodore Bobcats (7-6). Last edited by Eugene Church; 10-13-2019 at 06:33 PM. |
10-14-2019, 06:25 PM | #938 |
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Monday, June 4, 1951 NIRL FIRST TIGHTENS UP The pennant chase just tightened up in the North Island Recreational League First Division... fifth place Kofa KO'ed the top team, the Dutton Coyotes 8-2, stopping their winning string at five games... third place New Yerby outlasted second place Jackson 8-7 in 10 innings... and fourth place Stockdale nosed out last place Union Heights 2-1... the hapless Hackers have lost nine in a row. The current standings show Dutton (10-4) one game ahead of Jackson (9-5)... and two games better than New Yerby (8-6)... Stockdale (7-7) is three games back in the race. |
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