As a coach, I deal with kids ages 16 to about 22. They come from all backgrounds. Some have money, some don’t. Some are interested in academia, some aren’t. Some drive cars, some take the bus to school. Some respect others, some are so disrespectful!
But the one thing I notice, [...]
Archive for July, 2008
DADDY DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Posted in Dad, Father, School, Sports, tagged Academics, Crime, Divorce, Drop-outs, Family, Father, Pops on July 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
HOLY NAME SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Posted in Baseball, Holy Name, Rich Gossage, Sports, tagged Baseball, Hall of Fame, Holy Name, Rich Gossage, Sports on July 29, 2008 | 15 Comments »
This past weekend Rich Gossage was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Imagine for a moment Holy Name had a sports Hall of Fame?
Athletes and coaches.
Basketball, baseball, track and field, cross-country, soccer, swimming…(Am I missing anything)?
Intramurals DO NOT count…
You had to have played a sport where you actually put on a uniform and [...]
FORMER TEACHER AT HNS
Posted in Brother Vinny, tagged Holy Name, Picture, Teacher on July 28, 2008 | 48 Comments »
This image was sent by a loyal reader of Container Diaries.
We encourage readers to send their pictures, comments or the opportunity to be a guest blogger on anything from back in the day.
-SF
Hoops135@hotmail.com
HANGIN’ IN THE YARD!
Posted in Blog, tagged Old School, Schoolyard on July 26, 2008 | 17 Comments »
This image was sent to me by a loyal reader of Container Diaries.
Can you guess who these two are?
Click on the image to enlarge…
-SF
Hoops135@hotmail.com
OLD-TIMERS DAY
Posted in 1968, Baseball, C.Y.O., Holy Name, tagged Baseball, Holy Name, Old-Timers Day, Sports on July 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
With the Mets and Yankees doing very well and with it being the summer, I will continue with the current baseball/softball theme.
Did you ever attend Old-Timers day at Shea or Yankee stadium?
I recall a few of them back in the day where I would see some of the former players come out and strut their [...]
BATTER UP!
Posted in The Wharf Rats, tagged P.S. 107, Softball, Sports, The Wharf Rats on July 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
When I was six years old I had aspirations of being a big leaguer some day. I tried out for a softball team in P.S. 107’s. For some reason they said I was too young.
I was ticked off!
They said I could be the batboy, I was like, Later for that…
Here is a team picture [...]
KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
Posted in Farrell's, Holy Name, Vinny Brunton, tagged Bagels, Daily News, FDNY, Holy Name, Sunday morning, Terrace Bagels, Vinny Brunton on July 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A friend of mine who works at the local coffee shop asked me for the URL of Container Diaries last night. I told him to just google ‘Container Diaries’ and it will pop up. But I wasn’t sure if he would find the blog interesting. Hopefully this newspaper article that was sent to [...]
POPEYE THE SAILOR
Posted in Popeye, tagged Ali Baba's 40 Thieves, Bluto, Cartoons, Olive Oyl, Popeye, Wimpy on July 17, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Is the fictitious character with the huge forearms on television anymore?
This morning I did a search on our cable box and nothing came up! (a search, isn’t that amazing how you can type a couple of letters in and come up with all the shows that are coming up in the future?)
As a youngster sitting [...]
