What's summer without baseball? And is there any red-blooded kid who didn't love playing America's favorite game at the Little League fields by the Summerville Recreation Center? Or, barring any athletic ability, didn't love visiting the concession stands behind every home plate?
Courtesy of Mike King, here's a photo of Summerville's finest baseball players, circa 1964.
Front row (L-R): Randy Thompson, Kenny Howell, Jimmy Lenderman, Danny Allen, Jackie Cash, Don Money, and Wright Wheeler.
Back row (L-R): Coach Bob Gayler, Eddy Ellenburg, Mike King, Danny Cooper, Ladell Norton, Randy Simonds, Mike Turner, Phil Cavin, and Coach Jack Cash.
Mike King remembers:
"In 1964 the all-star team consisted
of 11 and 12-year-olds chosen by the coaches to represent Summerville
as the best of the league.
Take note of the shoes worn by the players. Not many kids had baseball shoes to wear; most of us wore our tennis shoes to play in.
It never was too hot or too cold to play baseball. We were always on a sand lot or in
someone’s back yard playing baseball, wiffle ball, or playing sock ball at
Harold Mitchell’s house on
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