A 10th grader playing HS football and smoking a cigarette.
Alrighty then.
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Not sure why it’s shocking that HS kids in the 80/90s might have drank a beer or 3 and smoked a cigarette or so.
Glad that you gleaned that one factoid out of that story.
Was it smart? No. Would I do everything over again? Maybe.
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I was a HS coach. If anyone on my team smoked and I found out, there would have been hell to pay. A 10th grader? Good grief.
Yeah, great story of RH LH.
I know you were a coach, Jim.
I don’t understand why you’re so freaked out about HS kids being HS kids, and I don’t care.
I’ll see you in the next game thread, amigo.
Not freaked out at all. Amazed that you did it and seemed to think it was important for your story. I misjudged what you were.
In my world, HS athletes do not smoke in the 10th grade.
Back to non-topic…one of my biggest regrets as a baseball player is not learning to hit left handed. I tried a little, and I’m not a complete muppet from the port side, I can make contact, but I couldn’t do it with any real success. I coulda been somebody!
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I can make contact more often from the left side but that contact is always a dribbler to the pitcher. From the right side its a hot shot to either short or 2b, never could get the ball in the air with any regularity.
Theres a reason I was a pitcher and pinch runner on my non pitching days
I tried for a while, but I couldn’t get a natural swing put together. Not that I was a great hitter from the right, but still. I did turn myself into a nearly fully ambidextrous basketball player. I never had to think about going left or right, I just did what the situation called for.
But if you want to see high comedy, watch me attempt a tennis serve left-handed.
I never tried switch-hitting, and I don’t know why. As I said in an earlier post, I do not remember working on hitting with my dad, other than at team practices, but I must have some.
I never competed in any home run derbies because I just wasn’t that kind of hitter. I always said if there’s a “Ground Ball to 2B Derby”, I’m your man.
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My dad switch hit, but he mostly hit left handed. He always said he just saw the ball better left handed. He taught me some, but I never put in the real effort required to get proficient. It’s not natural.
Good one, Matt!
My dad switch-hit too.
Just for old times sake. Pictures of Athletes Smoking
https://www.si.com/more-sports/2012/02/29/29sports-figures-and-smoking
I had a scout once ask me if I could hit left handed. I said no. He said “that’s too bad. I got a million guys like you. I need one to hit lefty”.
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My JHS basketball coaches required us to use right and left hands, and it was natural for me by the time I got to HS.
I think I said HIGH SCHOOL athletes.
I knew lots of guys in high school who smoked. They were not the athletes.
That how I remember it too.
My point exactly. Lots of HS kids smoked, but the athletes did not. There was some clandestine drinking but not smoking.