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SATURDAY MORNING IN THE SCHOOLYARD
08 Saturday Aug 2015
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Tag Archives: P.S. 10
TRAVEL TEAM
24 Sunday Jan 2010
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Do you recall looking at the Catholic Youth Organization boys basketball schedule?
Next to our school’s name was a letter ‘T’.
Do you recall what that stood for?
Travel Team. We were the away team for most games.
Sure we had P.S. 10 on 7th avenue and Prospect as a practice gym on Tuesday’s and Thursday nights. But for the most part , we played on the road.
We drove in cars, (meeting in Holy Name Girls schoolyard) or we took the bus and/or train.
I was e-mailed this image of a look inside the armory on 15th street and 8th avenue. Look at this place! It’s awesome! I could probably run a basketball academy there…
Can you imagine if we had this back in the day? WOW!
It probably would’ve been our home gym!
(Special thanks to GT for the image)
-Steve
Hoops135@hotmail.com
THINGS I MISS…
24 Saturday Oct 2009
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Basketball, Cartoons, Coney Island, Coney Island Avenue, F-Train, Farrell's, Growing up, Joe Mussa, Living Room, Manhattan Beach, Neighborhood, P.S. 10, P.S. 154, Schoolyard, St. Francis College, Whiffle Ball
When I think back to the days of growing up on 9th avenue during the 70’s and 80’s, things I miss most and would love to reenact are…
Taking my basketball and heading to the schoolyard…
Playing punchball/slap ball in the girls schoolyard…
Watching cartoons and eating cereal while sitting on the living room floor…
Hanging out with friends all over the neighborhood…
Playing baseball in the Lot…
Playing two-hand touch in the street…
Playing whiffle ball, in the street…
Watching Farrell’s Football practice on Saturday afternoon in P.S. 154 school yard…then watching them play the following morning on Farragut Road…
Intramural football…
Being a student in Mr. Mussa’s 5th grade class…
Being a student in Miss Monzillo’s 7th grade class…
Saturday morning basketball practice in the schoolyard…
Bantam ‘B’ basketball practice down P.S. 10…
Hanging out in Glenn Thomas’s basement listening to his brother Drew’s awesome collection of vinyl…
Sitting in Prospect Park late at night with guys like John Cain, Kevin Molloy and Jimmy Carroll…
Watching Gerard Trapp play basketball for St. Francis College…
Hanging out with Mary Kawas, Laura Cox and Noreen Davis…
Holding hands with Maureen Horan…
Jumping the turnstile and taking the ‘F’ train to Coney Island…
Playing basketball at Manhattan Beach…
To be continued…
-Steve
Hoops135@hotmail.com
B TEAM POWER!
02 Wednesday Apr 2008
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B-Team, Container Diaries, F-Train, Holy Name, IHM, Marv Albert, P.S. 10, Regina Pacis, St. Finbar, Xaverian High School
Do you recall the first time you played organized sports? Do you remember your first coach, your first team? Your first away game? How about the uniforms?
Way back in the day I played basketball for Holy Name’s ‘B’ team. In 1972, I was in the third grade, 8 years-old to be exact. My coach was Georgie Rauthier.
We had a blast.
Georgie was a great guy. He had a lot of energy, he pushed us and always seemed to care about us.
Some of my best friends at that time all shared in their first team experience with me. There was Frankie and Jimmy Cullen, Glen Thomas, Greg Wood, Jimmy Corrar, John Godfrey, Kevin Molloy, Patty Larkin, Joe Fields and my mind is playing tricks on me again because I’m having a ‘moment’ where I can’t recall any other players. (If I omitted you, please let me know and I will add you.)
I do know that we got smacked most games.
We lost to Regina Pacis 63-9 and to St. Finbar 29-3. In the Finbar game, Frankie Cullen scored our three points with an old fashioned ‘and-one’. He hit a driving lay-up and got fouled. Marv Albert would’ve said, “YEEEEESSSSSS, AND THE FOUL!”
At Regina I hit a corner jumper from the left side right before the half, I’ll never forget it because it was my first bucket of my career! Also I will never forget Regina having Steve Leondis, a strong-forward who did it all. He was so much taller and stronger than any of us. He later went on to Xaverian High School where he had a solid career.
Regina Pacis locker rooms had that vent where you could hear the people bowling next door.
I recall going to play I.H.M. one Sunday afternoon. You could actually walk there because their school was only a short distance from Holy Name. Some guys wanted to take the F-train…our home station was 15th Street PPW; I.H.M. was Ft. Hamilton… one stop away. Boy o boy, did we get into big trouble that day! But that’s for another blog entry.
Mr. Martin also helped Georgie out with the team. We practiced at P.S. 10 on 7th avenue on Monday and Wednesday nights. We’d meet in the girls schoolyard and the parents would drive us down and pick us up afterwards.
One night after practice we were running around the gym like crazy, just having a good time. In the public school gyms they have the long ropes that hang down for gym class but this one night Georgie decided to pull them down and let everyone get a try of climbing the ropes or swinging on them.
Our fun ended when the ‘A’ arrived in the gym and we were kicked off the court.
Boy those were the days…No worries, we just had fun and played.
Here is a team photo sent in by a loyal reader of Container Diaries. As you can see, the uniforms were sweet! Some of the shorts had belts on them! As I’m composing, I’m trying to recall what jersey number I wore?
