click to enlargeBack: Mack Stephenson, Bill Downing, Ron Wilson, Mike Stephenson, Coach Logan, Warren Haake, Gary Oline, Eddie Hines, Ralph Wilson.
Front: Bob Hamende, Larry Gaffney, Champ Davis, Will Howarth, John Voss, Jim Rollman.
Missing: Gail Millhouse, Jerry Millhon, Michael Neill. (The boxer was Mike's dog.)
It's August of 1954, just before we entered SHS. The Stephenson Redbirds were a Pony League team that played in Washington Park on Sunset Hill, the area now containing rose gardens and a carillon.
Champ, Warren, and Mike helped me on the names and faces. We have mixed memories of our success. Champ says we had a lousy record, but Warren says we played a split season: a bad start, then an undefeated record and league championship. I'm voting for Warren's account.
Catcher: Downing. Pitchers: Wilson, Oline, Davis. First: Stephenson. Second: Rollman, Voss. Third: Gaffney, Howarth. Outfield: Oline, Haake, Howarth, Hamende, Hines.
We wanted to get this picture and story online because Jimmy Rollman is quite ill and in the hospice at St. John's Hospital. We hope he gets to see this and know that we remember him well.
1 comment:
I hope Jim sees this too. If so, Jim, I wish you good days and happy memories. I remember you from the neighborhood. I had always assumed you would grow up to be a golf pro and that's how I had pictured you all these years.
Incidentally, I remember watching the Redbirds often, even remember Mike's dog. Good days.
I'm thinking of you, Jim.
Barbara Edmiston Mitchell
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