Almost every Friday after school during the Spring of 1957….all the cool dudes from Sam Houston Elementary Pre-School Tag-Up Baseball League….especially TnT, Peanut, Animal, Hoss, Bear, Hook & Bone Daddy….would jump on their bicycles and haul ass from school to Hanks Neighborhood Grocery…..which was on the other side across the street from Midland Memorial Stadium….while…
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There is an old saying by the folks who have lived in Midland, Texas for many years that goes like this….“You can take the boy out of West Texas…..but you can’t take West Teas out of the boy.”….which conjures up a story that Bone Daddy has shared with me on many occasions from his time growing…
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This story tells of the beginning of the tale of “Pops and Los Tres Hermanos”….which is about a father’s gift of a lifetime love of sports to his three sons….as the sage known as Pops (Bone Daddy’s Dad) would always say “There are far more lessons to be learned while pulling oneself up by the bootstraps…
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“There may not be another Sportsphile in the history of athletic endeavor that has brought more sports to the world…..not ALI….not MJ…..not NOBODY….as NOBODY reached more people…than JIM McKAY…..and he did it with a style unmatched by others….as he described sport in such a way as to make it a verbal art form for the…
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The quote “There’s winning……and there’s everything else”….which was so aptly spoken by the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi…..defines the New York Yankees more than any other franchise in the history of professional sports……not just for their wins…..but for the aurora that goes with the boys who wear the pinstripes…..for if you know…
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While reading my writings….keep in mind and understand that dogs live by the very good philosophy that SIPMLER IS BETTER. This is a philosophy that HUMANS have absolutely no concept of….for if you look at virtually everything that HUMANS have done or had a part in doing….or touched…..throughout the history of time that they’ve been…
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“Old Yankees never die….. and their fans won’t let them fade away” La Diabla, Sportsphile & Raconteur The New York Yankees fans have a “tried and true” annual tradition that is shared with their team in honor of the boys of summers past…..and unlike any other professional sports franchise….the Yankee fans…
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Bone Daddy and I were watching the NLCS Game 4 of the N Y Mets vs. Houston Astros on the evening of Halloween night, October 31, 2010….when during the opening ceremonies the network cameramen were focusing their lenses while panning the crowd of those fans who had come to the game in their Halloween costumes….when…
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