Softball
January 5, 2003
I want to write about softball people because I believe it is an understated game. Men and women of any station in life can play the game; however my oldest son, Jay, calls it a blue-collar sport. It certainly isn’t in the elite category of golf or tennis, although I have known some truly fine individuals to play softball.
I’ve made my pre-list of several people that I want to interview and I hope to get in touch with at least 30 of them, which seems now to be enough length for my books.
At age 70, I’ve nearly waited too long for some I consider to be truly great in my softball experiences. An early softball hero to me in Portsmouth, Ohio was Bill Berry. In getting in touch again after 35 years away from town, I find that the 82 year-old Bill has Alzheimer’s, but I did get an abbreviated interview with the help of his son, Jeff. Fortunately long time memory is maintained better in cases of dimentia and Bill could remember some names and teams from his experience.
Portsmouth had many fine athletes and Harry Weinbrecht was a good one who spent most of his coaching and teaching career there after growing up in Chillicothe, Ohio, halfway between Portsmouth and Columbus. When I contacted Harry, he said he would be happy to help, but he recommended that I get with Harry Swope, who started the baseball/softball Tri-State Hall of Fame, with Gary Nyland. I did and Harry has already been a tremendous help to me.
I’ve been fortunate to play with some fine people in Portsmouth, Westerville and Columbus, Ohio and watch my sons, Jay and Jeff, play in many games as well.
Years ago, I had read Lowell Thomas, the great adventurer-writer’s, 1940 book on softball. Each spring I’ve thought of these words in the book:
“…Groups of large, small, paunchy, bald-headed, misshapen gents with rare roast beef complexions and in the prime of life began collecting on the meadows of the world to make huge fools of themselves, but to have a whale of a good time.” Yes, I am bald-headed and paunchy and I’ve made a fool of myself more than once, but I have had a whale of a good time. This book is so much less about me than the softball characters I have met or been told of over the 60 years I have watched and 54 years I have played the game.
Columbus has had some of the finest Open, B and C teams in the nation over the eighties and nineties. I contacted Orfeo Angelo who gave the names of some great contributors to the game here. The Lou Berliner diamonds have 30 fields and many have been upgraded in recent years, to make it the largest and one of the finest softball complexes in the world. Orfeo claims that Lou was a 5’7” Jewish fellow who covered amateur athletics in Columbus for one of the three local newspapers in the 50’s and 60’s. Orfeo says that he will help, but he also recommends Jim Wharton, John Fleeman, the black gentleman named Gene (with the unlit stogie always in his mouth), and Shorty Lewis as well as many others.
There was a Bates Chemical “C” team in Westerville, whom my son, Jay, played for, which was managed by Michael Wasylik, the best slow-pitch pitcher I’ve ever seen. That is, admittedly, a subjective call. I want to interview “Was”. He fielded the position extremely well and always made smart and quick managerial decisions.
I brought the King and his Court up on Google. Jim Henry, Joplin Globe Assistant Sports Editor, reported in July of 2002 that Eddie Feigner, the King, was 77 years old and had barnstormed across the country for 57 years out of Richland, Washington. Feigner quit keeping track of his records three years earlier, but it is mind boggling:
· Won 8,270 games of more than 10,000 games he pitched against all comers.
· 930 no hitters
· 238 perfect games
· 1,916 shutouts
· 132,070 strikeouts, including 14,400 blindfolded
In an exhibition game in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium, Feigner struck out, in order, major leaguers Willy Mays, Willy McGovney, Brooks Robinson, Maury Wills, Harmon Killebrew and Roberto Clemente. In the Houston Astrodome, Feigner fanned Hank Aaron, Mays, Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams.
At 77, Feigner’s fast ball had slowed to 84 mph from 114 mph in his prime. “I still throw as hard as I ever did,” Feigner says. “It just doesn’t get there as fast.”
“How much do you think Joe DiMaggio made during his best year? Or Ted Williams?” Feigner asked Doug Clark of the Spokesman-Review in 1999. “I’ll tell you. They made $125,000 a year. Well, I used to make that every month.”
It is also my intent to interview key sponsors of some of the finest teams in Columbus. I’d also like to talk with people in the various halls of fame throughout the state. We’ll see how it goes. The stories will have occasional comments by me, but will mostly be the stories of the people whom I interview.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Portsmouth OH Introduction
Many of us moved away from our home town to attend school, work, or whatever. The steel mill was nearly closed in 1950 when I graduated and the railroad was hardly hiring. I went to Columbus and got my first post high school job at the D.L. Auld company. It paid $0.78 per hour for a nine hour day, six days a week. I moved the stamped metal parts (Car emblems and appliance emblems) among various departments. Such parts were used all over the world by manufacturers. After stamping the steel emblems were chromium plated and buffed to fish before shipping.
My brother-in-law, James Dexter White, Joan's husband, helped me get a job at Columbus Coated Fabrics at $1.00 an hour shortly afterwards. After only working and sleeping in Columbus and going home and spending my little earnings on dates with Jeanette Weddington, I decided to return home and join the Navy as my slightly older friends, Don Ramsey and Paul Stamm had recently done. That required a four year enlistment during that time of the Korean War and, after talking with a few of my WW II friends, I found that not many of them had served the entire duration of the four plus years of WW II. The Army was drafting for only two years and I felt that would be enough time away from Jeanie and home. We married in January, 1952 and I was drafted in November for duty beginning on my twentieth birthday, November 13, 1952. In the meantime, I obtained a job in the shipping room of Williams Shoe Company and we set up housekeeping in furnished apartments.
After service in Japan, I returned and we lived in Forest Heights and eventually bought a house at 2114 High Street in Portsmouth. Our son, Jay, was born there and we lived there until January, 1959, when he was three. I was working then at Goodyear Atomic Corporation, mainly as a metallurgical technician in the Metallurgy Department. I resigned and matriculated to the University of Kentucky (December, 1958) and the three of us moved to Lexington, KY. I had been attending Ohio University's Portsmouth Branch for six years to obtain 1 1/2 years of engineering credit. Not a lot of engineering courses were offered at the branch and I had to recruit enough students to obtain most of my classes so that professors from Marshall U or Ohio U in Athens would make the trip to teach us.
After obtaining my Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering, we moved back to Portsmouth and GAT re-hired me for the Metallurgy Department. After short abodes in Forest Heights and Kent Street apartments, we bought a house in Eden Park from a friend, Dave Spriggs, Jim's older brother. We lived there six years until I was hired by the Abex Corporation, Denison Division as their Division Metallurgist. We moved to Westerville in July, 1967 and have lived in this same house for nearly forty-one years now.
I played only intramural sports at PHS, but began playing Church League basketball and softball when I was sixteen. We attended Central Christian Church and had some very fine softball teams there. I played some industrial fast pitch in Columbus for an American Welding tteam with a few other Denison employees. By that time it was nearly all slow pitch in Columbus. I began fast pitch Church league play and slow pitch n Westerville not long after.
Dad had died of a massive heart attack during my first semester at UK. Mom and the younger kids were still at home on McConnell Ave. and we made frequent trips down Rt. 23 to home.
We were out of Portsmouth, but Portsmouth was not out of us while living in Westerville. Jay, then twelve, would have preferred to go back and live with my mother and Jeff, only six, didn't appreciate the too frequent trips back home. As the boys became more involved in Westerville sports activities we slowly weaned ourselves away from P'Town. Jay longed nostalgically, to be in Portsmouth and, wanted, hopefully, to eventually play for the Trojans. Instead he became a good ball player of the main sports in Westerville and, through the help of Dick Klitch became a late walk-on at Miami University of Ohio.
I will continue with this at a later time, but hopefully the draw of Portsmouth to me and my family will have been established by this introduction.
My brother-in-law, James Dexter White, Joan's husband, helped me get a job at Columbus Coated Fabrics at $1.00 an hour shortly afterwards. After only working and sleeping in Columbus and going home and spending my little earnings on dates with Jeanette Weddington, I decided to return home and join the Navy as my slightly older friends, Don Ramsey and Paul Stamm had recently done. That required a four year enlistment during that time of the Korean War and, after talking with a few of my WW II friends, I found that not many of them had served the entire duration of the four plus years of WW II. The Army was drafting for only two years and I felt that would be enough time away from Jeanie and home. We married in January, 1952 and I was drafted in November for duty beginning on my twentieth birthday, November 13, 1952. In the meantime, I obtained a job in the shipping room of Williams Shoe Company and we set up housekeeping in furnished apartments.
After service in Japan, I returned and we lived in Forest Heights and eventually bought a house at 2114 High Street in Portsmouth. Our son, Jay, was born there and we lived there until January, 1959, when he was three. I was working then at Goodyear Atomic Corporation, mainly as a metallurgical technician in the Metallurgy Department. I resigned and matriculated to the University of Kentucky (December, 1958) and the three of us moved to Lexington, KY. I had been attending Ohio University's Portsmouth Branch for six years to obtain 1 1/2 years of engineering credit. Not a lot of engineering courses were offered at the branch and I had to recruit enough students to obtain most of my classes so that professors from Marshall U or Ohio U in Athens would make the trip to teach us.
After obtaining my Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering, we moved back to Portsmouth and GAT re-hired me for the Metallurgy Department. After short abodes in Forest Heights and Kent Street apartments, we bought a house in Eden Park from a friend, Dave Spriggs, Jim's older brother. We lived there six years until I was hired by the Abex Corporation, Denison Division as their Division Metallurgist. We moved to Westerville in July, 1967 and have lived in this same house for nearly forty-one years now.
I played only intramural sports at PHS, but began playing Church League basketball and softball when I was sixteen. We attended Central Christian Church and had some very fine softball teams there. I played some industrial fast pitch in Columbus for an American Welding tteam with a few other Denison employees. By that time it was nearly all slow pitch in Columbus. I began fast pitch Church league play and slow pitch n Westerville not long after.
Dad had died of a massive heart attack during my first semester at UK. Mom and the younger kids were still at home on McConnell Ave. and we made frequent trips down Rt. 23 to home.
We were out of Portsmouth, but Portsmouth was not out of us while living in Westerville. Jay, then twelve, would have preferred to go back and live with my mother and Jeff, only six, didn't appreciate the too frequent trips back home. As the boys became more involved in Westerville sports activities we slowly weaned ourselves away from P'Town. Jay longed nostalgically, to be in Portsmouth and, wanted, hopefully, to eventually play for the Trojans. Instead he became a good ball player of the main sports in Westerville and, through the help of Dick Klitch became a late walk-on at Miami University of Ohio.
I will continue with this at a later time, but hopefully the draw of Portsmouth to me and my family will have been established by this introduction.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Family- Ted Dunham
Ted Dunham
Ted Dunham was born to my mother, Mary Clark Dunham, after his father was killed working on electrical lines after their marriage, probably in the 1920’s.
I don’t have a copy of Ted’s obituary handy, but he must have been born about 1926 and died approximately 1986. He was sixty 60 years old at least, because I remember him saying that he may have been the first Dunham (Wakefield, Ohio family) to live to be sixty.
Mom married Forest Earl Kegley and they started their family.
When I, born 1932, was very young, Ted lived with my mother’s parents Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Clark on Robinson Ave., just west of the Central Baptist Church, which they attended, in Portsmouth, OH.
Joan, 1928, and Forest (Bud), 1930 were the next born to Mary and Forest Earl Kegley. We
lived a while on Murray Street, then Tenth Street across from Tracy Park. I was five
and Ted must have been twelve or so when the 1937 flood hit Portsmouth and many towns along rivers. I remember that the waters came to the attic of our tenth Street house. I don’t know the timing of Grandpa and Grandma Clark’s move to Vinton Ave. just above the Dreamland Pool and well above the flood stage. I vaguely recall our family living there with them.
A sad story, I hadn’t heard, until just a few years ago from Sharon and Sandy was that Mom was downtown with my younger siblings watching a parade. She noticed a ragged kid sitting on the curb across the street. Sadly, she discovered it was Ted and it broke her heart. She and dad then took Ted into our house, then on McConnell Ave.
Grandma and Grandpa were in their late seventies or eighties when they began raising Ted. Grandma Clark, after Grandpa died, had a one bedroom, kitchen and shared bath with us kids on the second floor of the McConnell Ave. home until she passed away. Mom and Dad gladly shared their home, which was crowded with us kids.
Ted and I had a close relationship when I was young. He got me into lifting sash weights as a body building technique. I was proud of him as my big older brother. Ted was tough enough and must have lived a lot on the streets of Portsmouth.
While Ted was living with us at home, I don’t recall a lot of interchange between him and Dad. I believe they had as solid and respectful a step-relationship as can be had. It didn’t appear to me that there was any difference. I credit all- Ted, Mom, and Dad for that.
Anyway, Ted was bright, very well read, and worked in Dayton at Wright Patterson in Dayton for a short time after graduating from Portsmouth High School. Dad drove the family to visit him there and I was so amazed at the size of those WW II aircraft of that day. Wheels much taller than a man.
Shortly after, he went into the Army. The Army sent him to Lake Forest College in Illinois outside of Chicago because of his high aptitude scores on entry tests. As many youngsters do upon college entry, he must have played a little more than he studied. He may have been a late teenager or just into his twenties. I don’t know the circumstances then, but he took basic training in Texas and shipped overseas, shortly after. That was the case during those years when all able bodies were needed for fighting the war.
Ted must have got to Europe as the American troops were invading the continent. I can’t recall from his censored e-mails and they weren’t allowed to reveal any hint of where they were. I believe he was in the Rainbow Division. He shared a few horror stories of war in that his job, as a medic, was to go to the wounded on the front lines and administer first aid and arrange to get them back to safer areas. He saw all types of injuries and death and was in the lines of fire. He was in Germany for occupation for a while after their surrender.
I don’t recall that Ted ever became a Christian, but I will leave that part of his life to him and God. I know he never stopped reading.
It was great when the war ended in 1945 and Ted returned safely. He was married already to Helen Keyser Dunham and they set up housekeeping. They had RoseAnne and Robin in about the same time that Mom and Dad were having the last of the Kegley kids, Sharon and Sandy. Ted was proud as any father could be.
George, Jim, Mary Lou, and Paul had joined Mom’s and Dad’s family from 1937 through 1948 and Ted had lived away from the family much of that time.
He was able to enjoy the freedoms here in America for the remainder of his life, although many of his fighting compatriots were not afforded that opportunity, or, if so, in a somewhat disabled fashion.
I thank my brother, George, for reminding us that we had never thanked Ted for his WW II efforts. That was, after a recent tribute e-mail for those of WW II that are dying due to their old age now. I appreciate that we were not raised as German or Japanese slaves in bondage, but have enjoyed our lives of freedom and as proud Americans.
I pledge to Ted and all old warriors that I won’t forget their valiant efforts. I will fight to the end to protect those freedoms they assured for us in the Big One.
I welcome my siblings to make any additions or deletions and corrections to this brief history of our older brother, Ted Dunham.
Sam Kegley
Ted Dunham was born to my mother, Mary Clark Dunham, after his father was killed working on electrical lines after their marriage, probably in the 1920’s.
I don’t have a copy of Ted’s obituary handy, but he must have been born about 1926 and died approximately 1986. He was sixty 60 years old at least, because I remember him saying that he may have been the first Dunham (Wakefield, Ohio family) to live to be sixty.
Mom married Forest Earl Kegley and they started their family.
When I, born 1932, was very young, Ted lived with my mother’s parents Abraham and Mary Elizabeth Clark on Robinson Ave., just west of the Central Baptist Church, which they attended, in Portsmouth, OH.
Joan, 1928, and Forest (Bud), 1930 were the next born to Mary and Forest Earl Kegley. We
lived a while on Murray Street, then Tenth Street across from Tracy Park. I was five
and Ted must have been twelve or so when the 1937 flood hit Portsmouth and many towns along rivers. I remember that the waters came to the attic of our tenth Street house. I don’t know the timing of Grandpa and Grandma Clark’s move to Vinton Ave. just above the Dreamland Pool and well above the flood stage. I vaguely recall our family living there with them.
A sad story, I hadn’t heard, until just a few years ago from Sharon and Sandy was that Mom was downtown with my younger siblings watching a parade. She noticed a ragged kid sitting on the curb across the street. Sadly, she discovered it was Ted and it broke her heart. She and dad then took Ted into our house, then on McConnell Ave.
Grandma and Grandpa were in their late seventies or eighties when they began raising Ted. Grandma Clark, after Grandpa died, had a one bedroom, kitchen and shared bath with us kids on the second floor of the McConnell Ave. home until she passed away. Mom and Dad gladly shared their home, which was crowded with us kids.
Ted and I had a close relationship when I was young. He got me into lifting sash weights as a body building technique. I was proud of him as my big older brother. Ted was tough enough and must have lived a lot on the streets of Portsmouth.
While Ted was living with us at home, I don’t recall a lot of interchange between him and Dad. I believe they had as solid and respectful a step-relationship as can be had. It didn’t appear to me that there was any difference. I credit all- Ted, Mom, and Dad for that.
Anyway, Ted was bright, very well read, and worked in Dayton at Wright Patterson in Dayton for a short time after graduating from Portsmouth High School. Dad drove the family to visit him there and I was so amazed at the size of those WW II aircraft of that day. Wheels much taller than a man.
Shortly after, he went into the Army. The Army sent him to Lake Forest College in Illinois outside of Chicago because of his high aptitude scores on entry tests. As many youngsters do upon college entry, he must have played a little more than he studied. He may have been a late teenager or just into his twenties. I don’t know the circumstances then, but he took basic training in Texas and shipped overseas, shortly after. That was the case during those years when all able bodies were needed for fighting the war.
Ted must have got to Europe as the American troops were invading the continent. I can’t recall from his censored e-mails and they weren’t allowed to reveal any hint of where they were. I believe he was in the Rainbow Division. He shared a few horror stories of war in that his job, as a medic, was to go to the wounded on the front lines and administer first aid and arrange to get them back to safer areas. He saw all types of injuries and death and was in the lines of fire. He was in Germany for occupation for a while after their surrender.
I don’t recall that Ted ever became a Christian, but I will leave that part of his life to him and God. I know he never stopped reading.
It was great when the war ended in 1945 and Ted returned safely. He was married already to Helen Keyser Dunham and they set up housekeeping. They had RoseAnne and Robin in about the same time that Mom and Dad were having the last of the Kegley kids, Sharon and Sandy. Ted was proud as any father could be.
George, Jim, Mary Lou, and Paul had joined Mom’s and Dad’s family from 1937 through 1948 and Ted had lived away from the family much of that time.
He was able to enjoy the freedoms here in America for the remainder of his life, although many of his fighting compatriots were not afforded that opportunity, or, if so, in a somewhat disabled fashion.
I thank my brother, George, for reminding us that we had never thanked Ted for his WW II efforts. That was, after a recent tribute e-mail for those of WW II that are dying due to their old age now. I appreciate that we were not raised as German or Japanese slaves in bondage, but have enjoyed our lives of freedom and as proud Americans.
I pledge to Ted and all old warriors that I won’t forget their valiant efforts. I will fight to the end to protect those freedoms they assured for us in the Big One.
I welcome my siblings to make any additions or deletions and corrections to this brief history of our older brother, Ted Dunham.
Sam Kegley
Friday, April 11, 2008
Family- George Kegley
George Kegley is four and a half years younger than me (birth date: March 7, 1937). George was born with both feet turned sideways- club feet. Of the ten kids to my mother Mary Clark Dunham Kegley, he was the only one with a deformity, although my young sisters, Sharon and Sandy, tell me that mom had a couple of miscarriages between me and George. Otherwise, there was very close to two years between each of us ten kids.
Dad- Forest Earl Kegley- worked as a conductor on the Norfolk and Westerm Railroad between Portsmouth and Columbus. While George was still a baby, they took him to Columbus to a doctor who operated and put his feet in braces. He didn't walk at the normal time a youngster would; however he became very athletic. During the time I was in the Army, 1952- 1954, George was in high school. He had played all sports at Highland Grade School and played freshman football at Portsmouth High School.
He and I played a lot of sandlot- Mound Park and our back yard- together earlier and played on Central Christian Softball Teams together as adults. When we went one on one in anything, he definitely did not want to lose. He would compete to the very end and you darned near had to kill him to beat him. I had an advantage in age and size, but he was definitely the harder competitor.
I had married Jeanette Weddington in 1952 before being drafted for service during the Korean conflict. George met and married Helen Walker Kegley and they proceeded to have five children, Connie, Eddie, Steve, and twins- Linda and Lisa.
George worked two jobs while in Cincinnati, Ford Motor Company and his own gasoline station. He also attended the University of Cincinnati at the same time. Shortly thereafter, he obtained a sheet metal union card and began working construction jobs at various sites across the country. George and Helen are settled now in Plant City FL after living a few other sites in the Gator state.
Connie and Linda live nearby in FL, Eddie in eastern Kentucky, Lisa in the Portsmouth area and Steve in Colorado.
George and I are the closest friends now, being closer in age than Jim and Paul, who are more and more friends as we each age. The age difference as youngsters shrinks in maturity.
Dad- Forest Earl Kegley- worked as a conductor on the Norfolk and Westerm Railroad between Portsmouth and Columbus. While George was still a baby, they took him to Columbus to a doctor who operated and put his feet in braces. He didn't walk at the normal time a youngster would; however he became very athletic. During the time I was in the Army, 1952- 1954, George was in high school. He had played all sports at Highland Grade School and played freshman football at Portsmouth High School.
He and I played a lot of sandlot- Mound Park and our back yard- together earlier and played on Central Christian Softball Teams together as adults. When we went one on one in anything, he definitely did not want to lose. He would compete to the very end and you darned near had to kill him to beat him. I had an advantage in age and size, but he was definitely the harder competitor.
I had married Jeanette Weddington in 1952 before being drafted for service during the Korean conflict. George met and married Helen Walker Kegley and they proceeded to have five children, Connie, Eddie, Steve, and twins- Linda and Lisa.
George worked two jobs while in Cincinnati, Ford Motor Company and his own gasoline station. He also attended the University of Cincinnati at the same time. Shortly thereafter, he obtained a sheet metal union card and began working construction jobs at various sites across the country. George and Helen are settled now in Plant City FL after living a few other sites in the Gator state.
Connie and Linda live nearby in FL, Eddie in eastern Kentucky, Lisa in the Portsmouth area and Steve in Colorado.
George and I are the closest friends now, being closer in age than Jim and Paul, who are more and more friends as we each age. The age difference as youngsters shrinks in maturity.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
My Books-
I have had interviews of Portsmouth OH people in each of my six published books. These are the dear hearts and gentle (not always gentle great athletes) people who who mostly live and laugh in my home town.
For the topics I have chosen, I have normally offered my input. In my 2002 Denison book, I had stories by Marvin Keyer and myself.
For my 2002 Integrity book, I included stories by Dick Klitch,Scott Rawlings, Dr. Myron Taylor, Cy Whitfield and myself.
I dedicated my 2003 Softball book to Wayne widdig and Don Lundy and had sories by: John Baker, Jeff and Bill Berry, Mick Kornhoff, Gene Myers and Shay Myers, Al and Rocky Nelson, Howard Newberry, Bill Newman, and Harry Shope. Jim Wharton had also served as a Sports Editor for the Portsmouth Times and was in the Softball book.
The 2004 Excellence book was all about Portsmouth area people, including: Dick Bendinelli, Tom Blackburn, Jerry "Skip" Bower, Marvin Bowling, Dr. Chester Corbitt, Stan Doddridge, Chuck Ealey, Lamoin "Bugs" Elliott, Jim Fout, Mark Frazie, Dr. Keith Gaspich, Curt Gentry, Earl "Smokey" Gibson, Danny Gilbert, Bill Gundlah, Robin Hagen-Smith,Ed Hall, Erica Hayes-Zinn, George Heller, Dick Hopkins, JR., Joe Jenkins, Dick Klitch, Frank Litteral, Dave Miller, Ed Miller, Howard Nance, Al Oliver, Ray Pelfrey, Homer Pelligrinon, Glenn Presnell, Arthur "Skinny" Preston, Ron Sturgill, Mike Swearingen, Carol and Clay Vice, Clay High School Softball girls, Harry Weinbrecht, and Jack Young.
Cyber-Cat fans in 2006 had chronological posts on a couple of University of Kentucky basketball forums- www.wildcatnation.net and a private message board. None, but from myself- SamKat- were from Portsmouth people there.
My latest book, 2007- I, God, & Country had stories by Frank Golden, Helen Kegley,Jenny Lavender,Laura McDowell, Sarah DuPuy Rapp, and myself.
I have been kicking around an idea for an additional book or just this SamKat blog and T.J. Dupuy has given me sopme valuable nuggets.
I am not too keen at reading and following instructions for computer help, but Shawn Baird, the youngest son of friends Dan and Arelis Baird, recently helped me a lot with the organization of this blog and I am currently workiong to improve it with his guidance.
For the topics I have chosen, I have normally offered my input. In my 2002 Denison book, I had stories by Marvin Keyer and myself.
For my 2002 Integrity book, I included stories by Dick Klitch,Scott Rawlings, Dr. Myron Taylor, Cy Whitfield and myself.
I dedicated my 2003 Softball book to Wayne widdig and Don Lundy and had sories by: John Baker, Jeff and Bill Berry, Mick Kornhoff, Gene Myers and Shay Myers, Al and Rocky Nelson, Howard Newberry, Bill Newman, and Harry Shope. Jim Wharton had also served as a Sports Editor for the Portsmouth Times and was in the Softball book.
The 2004 Excellence book was all about Portsmouth area people, including: Dick Bendinelli, Tom Blackburn, Jerry "Skip" Bower, Marvin Bowling, Dr. Chester Corbitt, Stan Doddridge, Chuck Ealey, Lamoin "Bugs" Elliott, Jim Fout, Mark Frazie, Dr. Keith Gaspich, Curt Gentry, Earl "Smokey" Gibson, Danny Gilbert, Bill Gundlah, Robin Hagen-Smith,Ed Hall, Erica Hayes-Zinn, George Heller, Dick Hopkins, JR., Joe Jenkins, Dick Klitch, Frank Litteral, Dave Miller, Ed Miller, Howard Nance, Al Oliver, Ray Pelfrey, Homer Pelligrinon, Glenn Presnell, Arthur "Skinny" Preston, Ron Sturgill, Mike Swearingen, Carol and Clay Vice, Clay High School Softball girls, Harry Weinbrecht, and Jack Young.
Cyber-Cat fans in 2006 had chronological posts on a couple of University of Kentucky basketball forums- www.wildcatnation.net and a private message board. None, but from myself- SamKat- were from Portsmouth people there.
My latest book, 2007- I, God, & Country had stories by Frank Golden, Helen Kegley,Jenny Lavender,Laura McDowell, Sarah DuPuy Rapp, and myself.
I have been kicking around an idea for an additional book or just this SamKat blog and T.J. Dupuy has given me sopme valuable nuggets.
I am not too keen at reading and following instructions for computer help, but Shawn Baird, the youngest son of friends Dan and Arelis Baird, recently helped me a lot with the organization of this blog and I am currently workiong to improve it with his guidance.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Family-Tobey Kegley
Tobey Kegley is the nearly 12 year old daughter of Jay and Terri Kegley. Her birthday is July 12, 1996. Her dad is Sam's & Jeanette's, (Jeanie) oldest son, Jay (52 on December 16, 2007).
Tobey is becoming taller and slimmer and is an excellent student in the sixth grade at Upper Arlington Jones Middle School. She works awfully hard at becoming a fast pitch softball pitcher and is on the Watterson's Eagle traveling team this summer. She plays nearly all sports at St. Agatha in Upper Arlington. Softball and volleyball are her favorites. She had piano lessons early and plays a horn in the Jones and St. Agatha bands.
Tobey's nearly 9 year old sister is Ida Scout. She is very much like Tobey in so many ways. Both girls are well-known in UA through sports at St. Agatha. Scout is a student now at Tremont Elementary in UA.
Tobey is becoming taller and slimmer and is an excellent student in the sixth grade at Upper Arlington Jones Middle School. She works awfully hard at becoming a fast pitch softball pitcher and is on the Watterson's Eagle traveling team this summer. She plays nearly all sports at St. Agatha in Upper Arlington. Softball and volleyball are her favorites. She had piano lessons early and plays a horn in the Jones and St. Agatha bands.
Tobey's nearly 9 year old sister is Ida Scout. She is very much like Tobey in so many ways. Both girls are well-known in UA through sports at St. Agatha. Scout is a student now at Tremont Elementary in UA.
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