Adbono, who's that handsome dude at the bottom of the display?
@smokeminside posted:Adbono, who's that handsome dude at the bottom of the display?
Scott Livingstone. He was an All American at 3B for the Aggies and had a pretty good MLB career after that. He is a Dallas area guy and I used to run into him every now and then. But haven’t seen him in a long time.
@adbono posted:Scott Livingstone. He was an All American at 3B for the Aggies and had a pretty good MLB career after that. He is a Dallas area guy and I used to run into him every now and then. But haven’t seen him in a long time.
@smokeminside, only superstars have their pictures displayed. They will put anyone’s gear in those cases. Mine is in there by happenstance more than anything.
CONGRATS Adbono!!!
Francis, I think I'm like most - kept lots, memories fade or are replaced and we find ourselves much less attached than we were at one time except for maybe a few of the truly special ones. LOTS of hand-downs and donations. Sometimes sentimental, sometimes practical.
Just like kindergarten artwork... when it's no longer special to the kids as grown adults, it becomes free license to thin the herd 
Keep just enough to hold some special memories but not so much that it's a space burden or requires a storage unit.
@cabbagedad posted:CONGRATS Adbono!!!
Francis, I think I'm like most - kept lots, memories fade or are replaced and we find ourselves much less attached than we were at one time except for maybe a few of the truly special ones. LOTS of hand-downs and donations. Sometimes sentimental, sometimes practical.
Just like kindergarten artwork... when it's no longer special to the kids as grown adults, it becomes free license to thin the herd
Keep just enough to hold some special memories but not so much that it's a space burden or requires a storage unit.
Thank you, sir!
Son got his first collegiate win this season. I asked if he grabbed a game ball…. He said, Pops, its D3, we need the balls for practice.
Some neat stuff in this thread. My brother is a carpenter and has his own wood shop. I didn't inherit that kind of skill. I asked him to make a display cabinet for my daughter to display all of her helmets. She has a helmet from every team she played on and her college had several changes of helmets. My brother made a display box that is incredible. It has shelves for the helmets and areas where she can display her awards. She has all of her old gloves and a few cruddy batting gloves that were special. BTW, she also has some photos and her 50th career collegiate home run ball on display. This display cabinet even has the ability to change the color of the lights in the display.
One of my baseball catchers from high school went on to have a good college career. He showed up one day with all of his equipment from high school and college including 3 top-line mitts and new college-catching gear. He donated it all to my baseball program. He also donated 3 wood bats that were unused.
We have hats from all his teams a border just below the ceiling starting from 7 on. We have a bin with all his jersey's in the garage. We've given some away for fundraisers. We also have a Cooperstown display case with a pix, the ring and a HR ball. We weren't great with HR balls otherwise but we have some of the big ones including his first professional hit and HR. We also have his HS and minor league championship rings. Girls have great hardware too.
I dont remember where we got it done, but we shipped like 16 of his youth jerseys (age 8-16) to a place that made a blanket out of them. One side is the front of the jerseys, other side the back. Really cool and I don't believe it was crazy expensive for such a cool keepsake
I can't let it go and wife won't let me so we will keep everything until the attic, basement and shed are full. I will make the knucklehead clean it out though.
I have a hard time letting go of things. My son was a big glove collector. Glove always had to sit with him on planes/travel…never packed. They were always what he asked for on birthdays or Christmas. He is saving them for this kids. I had a blanket made out of his big event and team jerseys. I have a bin with newspaper, programs he was featured in, etc. I have a retired glove he signed for me when he was about 15. I also have a display for his 3 hr balls from a single game at Cooperstown. So many great memories during this ride. Helps to balance out the current
I have all the shirts from all 3 boys' rec league teams, and hats. I guess something will have to be done with them eventually.
Baseball son's 10U rec team won the league championship, the only time any of them did it. We still have the shirt and hat hanging on the wall, still with the sweat and dirt from that championship game. Now it has several layers of dust, too.
But, his broken bats, jugs net, etc. are gone. We still have a couple of ball-buckets, and a few bats. Probably most of his gloves are in his room. He hasn't really been home for the past 2 years, I will make him clean out his room when he is.
My thing is pictures, and we have plenty of those.
My mother put all the game balls I received in LL from homers and no hitters in a huge jug. At some point when I was thirteen she asked where all the balls went. I told her wasn’t like I could drive to the sporting goods store for replacements. I used them.
Through high school she would ask if I saw the article about me in the paper or my name mentioned in a game article. I would roll my eyes and say, “I was there.”
She saved every trophy until I told her to toss them when I was in my forties.
The weird thing is she never attended any of my games in any sport until Legion regionals my last year. Then, one college game.
@anotherparent posted:I have all the shirts from all 3 boys' rec league teams, and hats. I guess something will have to be done with them eventually.
Baseball son's 10U rec team won the league championship, the only time any of them did it. We still have the shirt and hat hanging on the wall, still with the sweat and dirt from that championship game. Now it has several layers of dust, too.
But, his broken bats, jugs net, etc. are gone. We still have a couple of ball-buckets, and a few bats. Probably most of his gloves are in his room. He hasn't really been home for the past 2 years, I will make him clean out his room when he is.
My thing is pictures, and we have plenty of those.
Photos were/are my thing too (Growing up on the diamond) - I put just a few of my favorites in that Flickr album. Photos and a few select videos are my best memorabilia.
Drove to Austin from Montana this weekend with one of the chores being clean out the storage unit before heading back. There’s more stuff than I realized - Gloves from HS, Juco and D1. I especially liked the two 34” drop 0 MLB prime maple bats he used in HS. Two because they missed his birthday, and tossed in a second one at no charge. I’ll keep all the hats and jerseys for grand kids (hopefully), but what do you do with game used cleats? It feels wrong to toss them…
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@JucoDad posted:Photos were/are my thing too (Growing up on the diamond) - I put just a few of my favorites in that Flickr album. Photos and a few select videos are my best memorabilia.
Drove to Austin from Montana this weekend with one of the chores being clean out the storage unit before heading back. There’s more stuff than I realized - Gloves from HS, Juco and D1. I especially liked the two 34” drop 0 MLB prime maple bats he used in HS. Two because they missed his birthday, and tossed in a second one at no charge. I’ll keep all the hats and jerseys for grand kids (hopefully), but what do you do with game used cleats? It feels wrong to toss them…
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Started by a player. Great kid.
Thanks for that, I’ve emailed the organizer. They’re in Plano TX, so it should be easy if they can use size 13 cleats.
-Bill
@adbono posted:I am really happy that I saw this. I also keep the things I am sentimental about. I have given away all the youth equipment that got outgrown along the way. And have given away a lot of my old gear as well. About 10 years ago the Texas Sports Hall of Fame opened in Waco. It’s right next to Baylor’s ballpark. At that time I was going to Waco weekly on business and went to the HOF the week it opened. They were putting together an exhibit hall specifically dedicated to the Southwest Conference and were looking for items to display in individual school showcases. I offered to give them some items and they took me up on it. The SWC Exhibit has really grown over the years and now it is really cool. I was in Waco yesterday and had time to kill before a game so I went by the HOF. That is my hat, glove, and cleats in the picture below. Later in the day I got a call from my middle son asking me to get back to Dallas by 7 pm in order to attend a gender reveal party (not my cup of tea) at his in-laws house. I made it back just in time to find out that it’s a boy! Reading this thread reminded me that I still have the glove he used when he pitched in HS and college. My new project is to find someone that can recondition it so I can give it back to him when his son is born. I have six months to get that done. I don’t know that I would have thought of that had I not seen this thread.
That is freakin awesome. Congrats on the grand baby which locks you into this board for another 22+ years.