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Shot my age (or better) numerous times starting at age 69. It’s a much higher target now since I’m 77.
Lead my Pony League in hitting and homeruns. Made the all star team in Little League, Pony League and Colt League. I think I peaked when I was 14. After Colt League, drinking beer and going to the river with friends got in the way.
Scored last second Hail Mary to win the Super Bowl. Made three pointer at the buzzer to win the nba championship over the Celtics in game 7. Hit a grand slam with 2 outs 2 strikes and down by 3 runs in bottoms in the ninth to win the World Series. Ahh backyard dreams were the best 😂.
actually have had a hole in one with a career best of 68. All star pitcher in my teens. Other than that a really good Monday morning qb for the last 35 years.
Played Varsity football as a freshman WR and Kicker. Won the best catch of the year award that year. Started at MLB one game as a starter was injured and recorded 20 tackles. Mostly pile-on tackles though.... Very much undersized at around 140lbs, but I was a fearless tackler and had no problem hitting much bigger players.
Also played 2nd base for the US Navy baseball team in England as a HS sophomore and JR in an English semi-pro league. I was by far the youngest guy in the league. They've been playing baseball in England since WWII and some of those English guys are really, really good. The better teams are probably on a small college level. We didn't get paid, but some of the teams were.
Played Shortstop, turned a triple play
I may still hold the record for longest home run given up in Little League. There was a practice field behind regular game field, official field was 200 ft to all fences, practice field was maybe a little smaller. Opposing player was about 5 ft 10 and about 180 lbs, he hit a home run off me that cleared both fences.
I struck him out all his following at bats.
As a Junior, during one HS football game. I had six tackles, a punt block (I got very lucky, as I was UNBLOCKED), with a QB sack too, followed by my grabbing the football that the QB had just dropped, and my getting the fumble recovery. Thus ends my minor tooting of my own little horn from many, many, years ago. That was way, back in October of 1979. I remember listening to the Eagles new music as the album The Long Run had just come out, and the radio station (maybe it was on 96 ROCK WKLS? ) in our car, and my Daddy let me blast out "In the City" after the game on the drive home with my father. BTW, he NEVER did anything like that usually!!! Holy smokes, that was 45 years ago!!! Four and a half decades.... Never, ever before this, nor anytime after this did I ever have any kind of football game with THIS MUCH coming from only me. It was a very good day. I did get a game ball from our coach.
Three years later on in my own USMC Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina with Second Battalion in the fall of 1982. I ran the initial mile test in 5:50. At the end of recruit training three and a half months later, I ran the 3 mile PFT run in 17:40 (averaging less than 6 minutes per mile for three miles straight) I never ran that fast again during my eleven years in the Marines.
Forgot to mention....around 98 or 99ish in the Marines I scored the winning TD in the NAS Pensacola Captain's Cup Championship flag football tournament. Jeff Speedy, former Kentucky QB, was our QB (he was waiting to go through flight school). He threw me a perfect quick slant that I took in for the winning TD.
This was actually a big deal because the "School's Command" typically won this tournament because they were all Navy and Marine junior officers and mostly former college athletes waiting to go through flight school. Speedy was assigned to our Marine unit by pure luck. Super cool guy with an absolute CANNON of an arm.
I'll bet that was AWESOME!!!
It was! I still have the trophy. I was the QB for the team for 2 years before Speedy got there. I was happy to give him the ball. That guy was a freak athlete.
@pgjackson Ever run any blazing PFT's??
19:30 was my best ever 3 miles. I was typically a 23 minute guy. I hated running. I was a very good sprinter, usually one of the fastest guys on all my teams, but hated distance running.
@pgjackson Good story. Spent some time in Pensacola myself my Grandfather was a Navy lifer. He would have stayed in had they let him till he died.
The Naval Aviation museum there is first class.
As a XC/track coach I'm impressed by your 17:40 for 3 miles. I'm pretty sure Marine basic is not designed to produce fast milers/3 milers. So, kudos to you. I do recall breaking 6 minutes for the mile at ROTC camp after my junior year in college - in combat boots. However, I'm not at all sure of the distance on our "track" - it was simply a dirt loop. Might well have been short of 1/4 miles and, hence, short of a mile.
I've thought that would be fun to learn!