WHAT BLAINE WROTE WAS VERY INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE I KNEW NOTHING OF HIS BACK GROUND OR HIS HISTORY. I WOULD SEE HIM AROUND TOWN AND KNEW WHO HE WAS AND ALWAYS READ HIS COLUM, MINEGO SPORT GOSSIP. HE ALWAYS HAD SOME THING THAT WAS INTERESTING TO EVERY ONE WHO LOVED SPORTS.
CLAY
P.S. THANKS GOES OUT TO BLAINE, THIS IS REALLY SOME GOOD REPORTING.
You are treasure, Blaine!
Thanks! Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Bierley
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:43 AM
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Clay Vice remembering Pete Minego.
Thanks Clay,
I'm putting this into my bklog. Many people remember Pete Minego and I am learning moreabout him. Blaine bierley and Jack Plymale and Sarah DuPuy have contributed Minego stories. I would enjoy seeing a few columns from the old newspapers. I understand that Ebby Glockner is still around and he may also know of Mr. Minego.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Vice
To: Sam "Kat " Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:07 PM
Subject: PETE MINEGO
MINEGO SPORT GOSSIP. I REMEMBER IT WELL. RUSS BURNS WORKED AT THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES AND LIVED BEHIND MY PARENTS HOUSE WHEN I WAS IN CLAY HIGH SCHOOL. RUSS TOLD PETE ABOUT ME HAVING A BASKETBALL RIM PUT IN OUR BACK YARD. MY DAD BROUGHT A BOOM TRUCK AND Set tWO SMALL TELEPHONE POLES AND WE PUT UP A BANK BOARD THAT I HAD MADE IN INDUSTRIAL ART OUT OF TUNG GROOVED PINE AND WAS ALWAYS PLAYING BASKETBALL ON IT, THEN I GOT THE BRIGHT IDEA OF TAKING A BASEBALL AND USING A VERY LARGE NEEDLE AND THE OLD BLACK 30 LB TEST FISHING LINE AND THREADING IT INTO THE BASEBALL AND HANGING IT ON THE BASKETBALL RIM AND THAT WAY I COULD TAKE SOME BATTING PRACTICE ALL BY MY SELF AND THAT WORKED VERY GOOD, BUT SOME TIMES THAT BALL WOULD SWING AROUND AND HIT ME, SO YOU HAD TO LEARN AFTER YOU HIT IT TO GET OUT OF THE WAY. PETE CAME OUT TO RUSS'S HOUSE AND WATCHED ME FROM THERE AND WROTE AN ARTICLE AND PUT IT IN HIS GOSSIP COLUM. I STILL HAVE THE CLIPPING IN ONE OF MY TWO SCRAP BOOKS THAT MY MOTHER MADE FOR ME. I ALWAYS READ MINEGO SPORT GOSSIP. CHUCK LORENZ SON MADE A VIDEO OF THE 1937 FLOOD IN PORTSMOUTH AND I HAVE A COPY OF IT. I WAS LOOKING AT IT TRY TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY FOOTAGE OF MY FATHER " WILLIAM CLAY VICE SR. " BECAUSE HE HAD A JOHN BOAT AND WAS GOING AROUND PICKING UP PEOPLE FROM THEiR HOUSE'S AND TAKING THEM TO HIGHER GROUND AND I HAVE PICTURES OF HIM PICKING UP OUR FAMILY FROM THE FRONT PORCH ROOF AT 718 CAMPBELL AVE, THE HOUSE THAT I WAS BORN IN, BUT COULDN'T FIND ANY THING IN THE VIDEO, BUT I SAW A PICTURE OF PETE MINEGO IN THERE WITH HIS LONG BLACK TOP COAT AND THAT LITTLE DERBY HAT HE ALWAYS WORE.
CLAY VICE
I'm putting this into my bklog. Many people remember Pete Minego and I am learning moreabout him. Blaine bierley and Jack Plymale and Sarah DuPuy have contributed Minego stories. I would enjoy seeing a few columns from the old newspapers. I understand that Ebby Glockner is still around and he may also know of Mr. Minego.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Clay Vice
To: Sam "Kat " Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:07 PM
Subject: PETE MINEGO
MINEGO SPORT GOSSIP. I REMEMBER IT WELL. RUSS BURNS WORKED AT THE PORTSMOUTH TIMES AND LIVED BEHIND MY PARENTS HOUSE WHEN I WAS IN CLAY HIGH SCHOOL. RUSS TOLD PETE ABOUT ME HAVING A BASKETBALL RIM PUT IN OUR BACK YARD. MY DAD BROUGHT A BOOM TRUCK AND Set tWO SMALL TELEPHONE POLES AND WE PUT UP A BANK BOARD THAT I HAD MADE IN INDUSTRIAL ART OUT OF TUNG GROOVED PINE AND WAS ALWAYS PLAYING BASKETBALL ON IT, THEN I GOT THE BRIGHT IDEA OF TAKING A BASEBALL AND USING A VERY LARGE NEEDLE AND THE OLD BLACK 30 LB TEST FISHING LINE AND THREADING IT INTO THE BASEBALL AND HANGING IT ON THE BASKETBALL RIM AND THAT WAY I COULD TAKE SOME BATTING PRACTICE ALL BY MY SELF AND THAT WORKED VERY GOOD, BUT SOME TIMES THAT BALL WOULD SWING AROUND AND HIT ME, SO YOU HAD TO LEARN AFTER YOU HIT IT TO GET OUT OF THE WAY. PETE CAME OUT TO RUSS'S HOUSE AND WATCHED ME FROM THERE AND WROTE AN ARTICLE AND PUT IT IN HIS GOSSIP COLUM. I STILL HAVE THE CLIPPING IN ONE OF MY TWO SCRAP BOOKS THAT MY MOTHER MADE FOR ME. I ALWAYS READ MINEGO SPORT GOSSIP. CHUCK LORENZ SON MADE A VIDEO OF THE 1937 FLOOD IN PORTSMOUTH AND I HAVE A COPY OF IT. I WAS LOOKING AT IT TRY TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY FOOTAGE OF MY FATHER " WILLIAM CLAY VICE SR. " BECAUSE HE HAD A JOHN BOAT AND WAS GOING AROUND PICKING UP PEOPLE FROM THEiR HOUSE'S AND TAKING THEM TO HIGHER GROUND AND I HAVE PICTURES OF HIM PICKING UP OUR FAMILY FROM THE FRONT PORCH ROOF AT 718 CAMPBELL AVE, THE HOUSE THAT I WAS BORN IN, BUT COULDN'T FIND ANY THING IN THE VIDEO, BUT I SAW A PICTURE OF PETE MINEGO IN THERE WITH HIS LONG BLACK TOP COAT AND THAT LITTLE DERBY HAT HE ALWAYS WORE.
CLAY VICE
Thanks Blaine Bierley!
You are treasure, Blaine!
Thanks! Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Bierley
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:43 AM
Subject: Remembering Pete Minego
“Pete Minego”
Do you remember Pete Minego? When I was a student at Portsmouth High School in the middle 1950s, he was an institution at the Portsmouth Times newspaper.
Pete was a veteran newspaperman who was born in Portsmouth in 1880. He became a “cub reporter” for the old Portsmouth Blade sometime around the turn of the century. He had been with the Times since 1910, serving through the years as a reporter, a copyreader, a sportswriter, city editor, and managing editor. Pete had covered the major news stories in Portsmouth for generations.
In 1930 he began writing the daily column that most of Portsmouth’s sports fans knew and loved--“Minego’s Sports Gossip.” If you read the sports pages in the Times, chances were that Pete’s column was the first thing that your eyes met--even before the ball scores.
Pete’s “gossip” column was a conglomeration of anecdotes, pats on the back for various local people and enterprises, philosophy, sports, and wisecracks. There were usually quotes from his fictional “Uncle Zeb” on life and times in general, such as: “Uncle Zeb sez dynamite and an old maid have something in common. They’re harmless if you let ‘em alone.”
Pete lived on Bond Street in Portsmouth and was a lifelong bachelor.
They say he had a reputation as a “card shark” at the local Elks’ lodge.
Every once in a while, when I’m reading the sports pages, my mind wanders back to Portsmouth and Pete Minego’s column.
Blaine S. Bierley
(PHS '55)
Hilliard, OH
Thanks! Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Bierley
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 9:43 AM
Subject: Remembering Pete Minego
“Pete Minego”
Do you remember Pete Minego? When I was a student at Portsmouth High School in the middle 1950s, he was an institution at the Portsmouth Times newspaper.
Pete was a veteran newspaperman who was born in Portsmouth in 1880. He became a “cub reporter” for the old Portsmouth Blade sometime around the turn of the century. He had been with the Times since 1910, serving through the years as a reporter, a copyreader, a sportswriter, city editor, and managing editor. Pete had covered the major news stories in Portsmouth for generations.
In 1930 he began writing the daily column that most of Portsmouth’s sports fans knew and loved--“Minego’s Sports Gossip.” If you read the sports pages in the Times, chances were that Pete’s column was the first thing that your eyes met--even before the ball scores.
Pete’s “gossip” column was a conglomeration of anecdotes, pats on the back for various local people and enterprises, philosophy, sports, and wisecracks. There were usually quotes from his fictional “Uncle Zeb” on life and times in general, such as: “Uncle Zeb sez dynamite and an old maid have something in common. They’re harmless if you let ‘em alone.”
Pete lived on Bond Street in Portsmouth and was a lifelong bachelor.
They say he had a reputation as a “card shark” at the local Elks’ lodge.
Every once in a while, when I’m reading the sports pages, my mind wanders back to Portsmouth and Pete Minego’s column.
Blaine S. Bierley
(PHS '55)
Hilliard, OH
Portsmouth's street posts
Interesting, Sarah!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Rapp
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: re:street posts
I think my Daddy was responsible for those tombstone markers.. he was an engineer with the city at that time.. my sister got arrested for p ainting some of them black at holloween, if I remember right!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah Rapp
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: re:street posts
I think my Daddy was responsible for those tombstone markers.. he was an engineer with the city at that time.. my sister got arrested for p ainting some of them black at holloween, if I remember right!
Pete Minego- Portsmouth Times in the forties and fifties
Who remembers reading the Pete Minego sports columns in the Portsmouth Times (Ohio) during the forties and fifties? I read them then with religious fervor. He was often quoted by the city newspapers.
Pete told us of Lowell Thomas referring to our city as the only one in the USA with tombstones for street signs. Gave us a little false bravado for the Cultural Center of our Universe.
I would like for some person still living in the city to researcch the old Minego columns and present some of his best.
Pete told us of Lowell Thomas referring to our city as the only one in the USA with tombstones for street signs. Gave us a little false bravado for the Cultural Center of our Universe.
I would like for some person still living in the city to researcch the old Minego columns and present some of his best.
Go Tea Party! I would rather fight than see any more switching to the left.
When all of the various taxes are added together, is there any part of our income left? It is darn near zero and the libs are still generating more.
I am a senior and there is no COLA for my social security. That is another new senior tax. It is good to be liberal with the excess funds but our 'representatives' have already filled their own pockets with funds that are owed China by us all. And then we have appointed czars making further drains and doing no good. and should I say ACORN? I believe every 'service' going is raising the rate, particularly on us seniors whom o will probably euthanize in the future. It is little comfort to me that the senior Jews will be first.
As my good friend, Dick Klitch" tells me, I have gone off the deep end. Maybe so, but you betcha I don't like what is happening and I am for the tea party and I hope they come up with the right candidates to oust all elitists who don't vote the people's wishes.
I am a senior and there is no COLA for my social security. That is another new senior tax. It is good to be liberal with the excess funds but our 'representatives' have already filled their own pockets with funds that are owed China by us all. And then we have appointed czars making further drains and doing no good. and should I say ACORN? I believe every 'service' going is raising the rate, particularly on us seniors whom o will probably euthanize in the future. It is little comfort to me that the senior Jews will be first.
As my good friend, Dick Klitch" tells me, I have gone off the deep end. Maybe so, but you betcha I don't like what is happening and I am for the tea party and I hope they come up with the right candidates to oust all elitists who don't vote the people's wishes.
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