April 12, 2003
Dana Ball Park
San Diego, California
This is NOT the softball I hit over the center field fence on this day
in a senior softball game.
Assemblage of gas can with funnel and
softball
In all my two years playing baseball for Jordan High School in Long
Beach, California, one year for the United States Air Force in
Sacramento, California, and three years playing senior softball in San
Diego, I had never hit a ball over a fence for a home run. I was
playing for the Classics in a game with the Codgers. Don Lemons was
the Codger’s pitcher and the twelve foot high center field fence is
about two hundred and twenty-five feet from the batter’s box.
1947
Jordan High School
Long Beach, California
This IS the baseball glove I had on my left hand the day I walked the
first three batters I faced and then struck-out the next three
batters. Joe Iantorno was my catcher.
