Reply to "Your (dad) coaching/instruction when you were in LL"

freddy775,000+ posts

I'm an old timer. My coaches were 40 year-old WW2 veterans who smoked a lot (everybody smoked, even us 12 year olds every chance we got.)

The only instruction I can remember is, "You've got to stride long to hit long." Like Mickey Mantle, I guess.

Of course I learned to play baseball on the sandlot. It was a real sandlot-- an abandoned gravel pit.

My first real job at age 16 was being a surveyor's assistant. They sent us out to survey the gravel pit so it could be turned into condominiums. Uggh.

FWIW, that was the first time I'd ever heard the word "condominiums."

8/18/175:45 AM

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