Bert, lots of factors to heart disease with cholesterol being just one. Others could be overwhelming cholesterol in your family. My cholesterol issue is keeping HDL above 40. People with HDL above 60 are pretty immune to heart disease.
I have a good friend who is a cardiac surgeon and still works for the University of Kentucky Medical school at 80 years old this September. He is a two time President of the Kentucky Medical Society.
If they stay hungry and motivated as they are now it will be hard to come back to earth. A bump or two in the road perhaps but, they should be in the hunt at the end of the season. It has also made Votto step up his game a bit too. Win-Win.
Man that fried chicken looks good!Good morning from Forge Ridge, TN. Love this morning fog.
Been up since 4 am, but went back to sleep. Took former brother in-law to work at 7:30 am. May run up to Forge Ridge school with daughter.
Wishing all a great day.
Good morning from Forge Ridge, TN. Love this morning fog.
Been up since 4 am, but went back to sleep. Took former brother in-law to work at 7:30 am. May run up to Forge Ridge school with daughter.
Wishing all a great day.
Now just next seven,
Something about this Reds' run has had my mind drifting back to the summer of 1963 - I was a seven-year-old boy who absolutely loved going to Crosley. Vada Pinson was my favorite player. He was built like a greyhound, and in those sleeve-less jerseys, red undershirts, and the white crowned cap with red bill, he looked sharp as hell just lounging out in centerfield. Then he'd erupt like loosed lightning to run down fly balls, making most everything look routine. Then there was Frank Robinson, coming off a .342 average in 1962, though he'd slump in 63. Watching him bat, you knew you were seeing greatness.
Reds, man is this a great time to be a fan. More fun than I have had watching them in years.
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MD, I suspect your dad & mine knew each other. Mine played mainly for the Grants Lick semi-pro team at Vater Field/Park. Started around 1938 and played thru 1952-53 when he switched to umpiring. Spent three years in WWII playing with his Navy ship team that had a mix of minor league players & semi-pros like him. They'd play other ships' and bases' teams across the Pacific, but mainly around Pearl Harbor. Somewhere I think I have/had a photo of him with SILVER GROVE across his shirt as he did play for a number of teams. Also umpired a ton at Martz Playground up thru about 1975 doing Buckeye League games. I spent many a Sunday swimming in the pools there.
VH -- That's possible. My father played around the area in those years before I was born, and certainly he played out at the Martz Playground in those years. He was a pipeliner and traveled extensively to work in the years surrounding my early days in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I first saw him play in a semi-pro league in upstate New York, not far from Buffalo, where we lived during the years I was 5 and 6. It was a decent league, I remember lots of people turning out to watch (a few hundred, maybe, which seemed like a lot) and they had well made uniforms in both white and road gray.
The first baseball game in my memory was in the early fifties. Every small community had a baseball team back then. I recall watching an uncle pitch for his team a few times on a Sunday evening. In the early days of baseball, even into the early forties, the best players weren't always in MLB. I recall reading a story about a guy who's name I forget. I the thirties, he had hit 70 home runs one season for a minor league team. He chose to not play MLB as he would make more $ in his home town working and playing ball on the side (sometimes for a company team). Often the home team would pass the hat through the crowd to reward the "star" of the game. Often it was more convenient and profitable not to play MLB. Some west coast players preferred the PCL.
I saw O'Toole pitch there, so perhaps we were there at same time, though I was in college at UK by then & chasing DW vs. watching BL games. Also, saw Joe Nuxhall's younger brother. I recall those games drawing several hundred people to watch at like $1 a head. Some of the stars that played there were Whitey Brown, Myron Reinhardt, John Henry, George Dittus & Gene Ditto.
That was back when baseball was America's game. Now sadly, football is.
I recall pass the hat, but I remember it as to support the team's costs for bats/balls, etc.
In 25-50 years, it will be soccer.
They probably passed the hat for player and team reasons both. There's an old minor league park in Paducah called Brooks Stadium. I got to play there once in high school and a few times in what I think was Connie Mack ball. It was a thrill to play there as a young guy.
