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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:50 pm 
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I have a standing life-time batting average of .500 in softball.

I'm 1-2.

Played only once, showed up late. First time at bat I struck out. Second time I actually hit the ball, and everyone was so stunned they didn't think it to first base in time. The next hitter was out at first and the inning was over. Never went up to bat again that game, and haven't played since.

But, I still think a batting average of .500 for someone who grew up in a country without the sport isn't half bad.


I can understand why softball never caught on on Dagobah. It must be expensive to replace all those balls lost to the swamps


Not really. I was able to use the same ball every time, and use The Force to retrieve it. It's just that the other players (snakes, bats, etc) wanted to play Atari.


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 Post subject: My half mile freshman record still stands to this day...
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:17 pm 
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The year was 1965. I was on the freshman track team at Colgate University. It was parents' weekend, and not only were my mom and dad there, so was my old high school track coach.

During winter track, the senior, Bill Thompson, who owned the freshman half mile track record at the time, told me that his record would never be broken. He said that for anyone to ever beat it they would need perfect weather, stiff competition, and run a perfect race.

Well the day I broke his record, it was raining, the competition was a bunch of wimps from U-Mass, but I did run the perfect race. I only saw my competition twice. (When we lined up at the starting line, and when I looked back to see them going across the finish line behind me.)

I can't remember what my time was, but I think it was 1:55 point something or other.

My record still stands to this day (2011), because it wasn't too many years later that the NCAA did away with freshman track meets. Eventually, sometime in the mid to late 1990's another Colgate freshman ran a faster time. However, it was done in a varsity race, and I believe the rule is that freshman records have to be set in freshman meets.

p.s. If the NCAA never reinstates freshman track meets, I believe that my freshman half mile record will stand FOREVER...!

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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
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1.55 eh? At my peak of physical speed and stamina I might, with luck, have been able to do 400m in that. Now that's about how long it takes me to get from the parking lot to the bar. I was never built for speed - too top heavy (although admittedly the COG is much lower now than in my youth). I wasn't terribly embarassing in the 100m since it's anaerobic, but even then I never got below 13. Anything above 200 was just not too nstural for me. Prop forwards have to move a lot, but rarely very far. This is as nature intended.

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 Post subject: Another track man...
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:04 am 
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1.55 eh? At my peak of physical speed and stamina I might, with luck, have been able to do 400m in that. Now that's about how long it takes me to get from the parking lot to the bar. I was never built for speed - too top heavy (although admittedly the COG is much lower now than in my youth). I wasn't terribly embarassing in the 100m since it's anaerobic, but even then I never got below 13. Anything above 200 was just not too nstural for me. Prop forwards have to move a lot, but rarely very far. This is as nature intended.


RHINO, you are another track man...! I was starting to think that I was alone in this sport on the "ScaRatings".

By the way, I am now 65+ years old, and I am sure that you could now beat me at any distance on the cinders these days. Give me a ten yard head start, and I might be able to nose you out at the tape in the 100 yard dash.

p.s. Don't get too cocky. I'm thinking about going back into training, quitting smoking, swearing off booze, losing 50 pounds, getting on steroids, and running 20 miles before eating a bowl of "Wheaties" for breakfast every morning. :lol:

"Runners to your marks - Set - Bang...!"

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 Post subject: Re: Another track man...
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:50 am 
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p.s. Don't get too cocky. I'm thinking about going back into training, quitting smoking, swearing off booze, losing 50 pounds, getting on steroids, and running 20 miles before eating a bowl of "Wheaties" for breakfast every morning. :lol:

Wheaties are so yesteryear. No living soul remembers anything about them.


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 Post subject: Re: Another track man...
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:46 am 
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Wheaties are so yesteryear. No living soul remembers anything about them.


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 Post subject: Re: Another track man...
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RHINO, you are another track man...! I was starting to think that I was alone in this sport on the "ScaRatings".


I actually ran track in 9th grade. My best showing ever was third place behind two teammates in a dual meet. To give you an idea of how long ago this was, the event was the 880.

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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:21 am 
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Oh good lord I am no track man by any imagining. The only reason I even know my sprint times is because I went to a school which would not allow you to participate in intramural or interschool competition in just one of track and field events. All field specialists had to do at least one track event and vice versa. All the lumbering shot-putters, discus and javelin types tried to sign up as fast as possible for the 100m as it was over fastest, but if you didn't get to the sheet quickly you had to do 200, then 400 and so on as they filled up. Luckily my timing in signing up was never so bad that I had to go past the 400. I have no idea what my time in the 400 was exactly as only ran it a time or two (my 200 was right about 30 - I slow down very very quickly), but it was considerably over a minute - closer to 1.30 I am sure. Even without the cripple bit with my weight and lack of aerobic exercise it would have been near two by now. When I was still able-bodied and doing desultory exercise at the gym still some 5-6 years ago I struggled to run a mile in under 7.30.

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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
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Does having the third place car in a Pinewood Derby competition count was a sporting highlight? I won one race.

The car did win for best paint job, after I accidently mixed two colors together when I painted the second coat when the first was still wet. Everyone wanted to know the secret...and I just revealed it for the first time here...EGADS!!!


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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:23 am 
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I was cross-country and track (1-mile and 2-mile) in high school, but actually preferred longer distances even back then. Throughout high school and college I could consistently run half marathons in sub-1:20, typically 1:17 - 1:18 range, not exceptional by national standards but definitely pretty decent. When I was 34 which is now over 20 years ago I had a summer where I was able to train like a maniac, and at the end of that season I ran a 1:19:28 half-marathon my last sub 1:20 effort) which equates to a 6:04 pace for 13+ miles. Not bad for 34. Nowdays I do half-marathons in 1:45 - 1:50 range which still aint bad for mid-50's but admittedly I am carrying 25 additional pounds than in 1991 also.


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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
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I was cross-country and track (1-mile and 2-mile) in high school, but actually preferred longer distances even back then. Throughout high school and college I could consistently run half marathons in sub-1:20, typically 1:17 - 1:18 range, not exceptional by national standards but definitely pretty decent. When I was 34 which is now over 20 years ago I had a summer where I was able to train like a maniac, and at the end of that season I ran a 1:19:28 half-marathon my last sub 1:20 effort) which equates to a 6:04 pace for 13+ miles. Not bad for 34. Nowdays I do half-marathons in 1:45 - 1:50 range which still aint bad for mid-50's but admittedly I am carrying 25 additional pounds than in 1991 also.

You are one of those crazy people. :shock: :roll: 8-)
This kid was not built for running, I hated it. I'm with Rhino in that regard.
When I was in Phys Ed as a kid my only goal when running the mile was not to come in last. I think I only had a sub 7 min mile a couple of times. I think my worst time was aboot 10 min or more after Coach Harris in Jr. HS got mad at us for some reason I don't recall & made us run the 200, 400, & mile for time, in that order. We were all a bunch of tired puppies after that one.

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 Post subject: Re: Great Personal Sports Moments
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People who know me know the story; it goes a little something like this... I lit Chauncey Billups up in an AAU game when we were in High School. He was the big stud around the Denver metro area from what seemed like birth, I was not to be intimidated. On the flip side, he also torched me, but I am not the one who went on to have a successful NBA career. Remember, I still scored 45 on you, chump.. :-)

I continue to play basketball on weekends with former and current NBA players, current D1 players, and future D1 players. I am not what I once was, but I can still hold my own. The problem doesn't seem to be that I am not what I once was, but more like I am MORE than I once was.. ;-)

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 Post subject: Another real runner...
PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:57 pm 
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TCHCNB wrote:
I was cross-country and track (1-mile and 2-mile) in high school, but actually preferred longer distances even back then. Throughout high school and college I could consistently run half marathons in sub-1:20, typically 1:17 - 1:18 range, not exceptional by national standards but definitely pretty decent. When I was 34 which is now over 20 years ago I had a summer where I was able to train like a maniac, and at the end of that season I ran a 1:19:28 half-marathon my last sub 1:20 effort) which equates to a 6:04 pace for 13+ miles. Not bad for 34. Nowdays I do half-marathons in 1:45 - 1:50 range which still aint bad for mid-50's but admittedly I am carrying 25 additional pounds than in 1991 also.


TCHCNB, I'm glad that another real runner is here. I ran cross country too, mostly to get in shape for the middle distance track events in the spring. (The 440 and 880. Yeah, back then we ran races measured in yards, not meters.) I was never a great cross country runner, but during the four years I ran high school cross country (Just 2 1/2 miles), I did manage to actually come in first twice. My miler and two miler track buddies usually won. I never ran any type of marathon.

I am greatly impressed with your times in the marathons that you are still running. I always looked at the long distance runners on the team, and wondered how they could do it. There is so much pain in running those long distances. Half way into the race your mind starts working against you, asking you why are you doing this to yourself. Your lungs are screaming for oxygen. Your legs gradually lose the power they had at the beginning of the race, and you know that they have to keep going a lot farther no matter how weak and tired they feel. Then there was something our cross country coach called "stitches". I don't know if that is the real name for them, but that was when your abdomen would start sending out great messages of pain.

Anyway, you should be very proud of yourself. I am indeed greatly impressed.

p.s. If only I would have been allowed to jump into cross country races with just a half mile to go. I would have won every time. :lol:

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 Post subject: The last race I ever ran...
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The last race I ever ran was a relay against the Japanese at the Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan in 1971. My commanding officer, Major John Tivnan, ran lead off, and he put me in as the anchor man. The race was not going well, and I got the baton about five yards (perhaps more) after the Japanese anchor man got handed his baton.. The relay legs were only 110 yards, how could we win...? WE DID...!

Damn, our Marine squadron partied until the wee hours that night.

That was a great way for me to end my track career.

p.s. I am disappointed that Major Tivnan didn't put me up for the Congressional Medal of Honor, after avenging the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. :lol:

p.p.s. The Japanese anchor man was nowhere close to me as I sprinted across the finish line.

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 Post subject: BO, sorry, I skipped over your post...
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-BO- wrote:
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p.s. Don't get too cocky. I'm thinking about going back into training, quitting smoking, swearing off booze, losing 50 pounds, getting on steroids, and running 20 miles before eating a bowl of "Wheaties" for breakfast every morning. :lol:

Wheaties are so yesteryear. No living soul remembers anything about them.


BO, sorry, I skipped over your post...

You are right, Wheaties are so yesteryear. However, if you leave out the milk, and use beer instead, I think you may enjoy them as much as I do... :lol:

p.s. Tabasco sauce instead of sugar makes Wheaties a lot better too. :lol:

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Yep, Wheaties, beer, and tabasco sauce taste good, and if you eat enough of this healthy concoction, someday you may become the star of the next super hero movie. :lol:

p.s. Please consult with your doctor before trying this out. :lol:

p.p.s. Even if your doctor says, "Go for it, Big Guy.", I recommend that you have a bottle of Tums and a barf bag nearby, before you dig in. (It takes a while to get used to how it tastes..) :lol:

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 Post subject: I never saw it go over the fence...
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When I was a kid playing Little League baseball, my dad told me not to watch the ball after I saw where it was going once it left my bat. Get to first base as fast as you can. Baseball is a game of inches. Watching who is fielding the ball slows you down, and can get you called out, instead of safe by an inch.

I was never a power hitter, but I was fast. I took my dad's advice to heart, and probably batted around 800 during my two-year Little League career. However, I never hit a home run over the fence, and I thought I never would.

Fast forward a decade and a half. I was now a Marine playing a slow pitch softball game at Atsugi, Japan, against a Navy team. I hit a fly ball to left field. Once I saw where it was going, I stopped watching it, and sprinted to first base. The first base coach was no help. He was just jumping up and down. I looked to left field to find the ball, but I couldn't find it, or who had it. Then I saw my teammates jumping up and down on the third base line. Suddenly, I realized that for the first time in my life, I had hit a home run over the fence.

Sadly, I NEVER SAW IT GO OVER THE FENCE... :(

p.s. I am now closing in on year 66 of my life, and that home run over the fence is more than likely the first, last, and only one I will ever hit. However, I was safe at first base by an inch a bunch of times. :lol:

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 Post subject: As we get older, we all gradually become sports geeks, but..
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As we get older, we all gradually become sports geeks looking back, and our sports accomplishments of years gone by seem ever and ever less significant to us. More of you guys and gals must have memories of personal great moments you had playing sports, when you were younger. Any story, no matter how small you are afraid it might seem to others, is worthy of posting here. This thread gives you one last chance to brag about that moment, when you did something great playing sports at any level. Don't be shy. Post it here, so we all can know what you once did, and share your moment of glory with you. :D :D :D

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 Post subject: My son's greatest sports moment.
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My son, Alex, had his greatest sports moment playing YMCA baseall. (I was coach.) Alex was playing second base. There were no outs, and the bases were loaded. A relatively short fly ball was hit a little bit over his head. He ran back and caught it. The 1st base runner, foolishly took off at the crack of the bat, and Alex tagged him out as he ran in front of him. The 2nd base runner also took off as soon as the ball was hit, and was more than half way to third. Alex out raced him to the second base bag, before he could make it back.

AN UNASSISTED TRIPLE PLAY, WITH THE BASES LOADED...! ! !

(A vicarious great sports moment for me, but I was his dad, and I was coach, so I think I can post the story, and still have tears well up in my eyes, as I type the story in.)

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 Post subject: Another vicarious great sports moment for me...
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This is another vicarious great sports moment for me. This time I was coaching a soccer team of kids at the YMCA. There was a hand picked team that had played together for several years, that my team was playing for the championship. My team was a rag-tag bunch of kids, who had never played together before, but they played their hearts out. It was a miracle that they made it to the championship. The team we were playing against had kicked our butts, when we played them in the regular season. However, this time the score was tied at 2 to 2 with about 30 seconds to go. We had the ball just beyond midfield, when Matt got fouled. The referee declared it to be a direct penalty kick from about 5 yards within the midfield line. As the referee placed the ball, and Matt was getting ready to kick it, I yelled out to him, "Matt, put in the goal...!"

From way out there the ball flew into the air. I watched it as it spun towards the goal, and OH MY GOD, IT WENT IN...!

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..................... THE RAG-TAGS, WHO PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT, FINALLY WON...!

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