OT - the way it was

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I wore his Mr. Basketball sneakers until I upgraded to Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars.

I wore PF Flyers. The nerds in our school wore Keds.

BTW - when I was in our park district's baseball program (we didn't have "official" Little League), Pete Ward of the White Sox once came to our field to do a hitting demonstration. One of the other 12 year olds threw him a pitch and Ward hit it totally out of the park (not really a big deal), over the highway and through a gas station window - on the fly! That was a big deal. We guesstimated it was well over 400 feet, maybe even over 450.