Skip to content

Bespoke

ancient ideas, fresh trails

Tag: Stan Musial

January 24, 2013March 12, 2015

The Boy The Man & Gravel Baseball

Continue reading →

Archives

December 2025 (2)
October 2025 (1)
September 2025 (2)
July 2025 (2)
June 2025 (2)
May 2025 (2)
April 2025 (2)
March 2025 (1)
February 2025 (2)
January 2025 (2)
December 2024 (1)
November 2024 (2)
October 2024 (2)
September 2024 (2)
August 2024 (2)
June 2024 (1)
April 2024 (3)
March 2024 (1)
February 2024 (1)
January 2024 (2)
December 2023 (1)
November 2023 (2)
October 2023 (2)
September 2023 (2)
June 2023 (3)
May 2023 (2)
March 2023 (1)
February 2023 (2)
November 2022 (1)
October 2022 (4)
August 2022 (1)
July 2022 (2)
January 2022 (1)
November 2021 (1)
August 2021 (1)
July 2021 (8)
May 2021 (1)
March 2021 (1)
January 2021 (1)
December 2020 (1)
October 2020 (2)
July 2020 (1)
June 2020 (1)
May 2020 (1)
April 2020 (5)
March 2020 (3)
January 2020 (1)
November 2019 (1)
October 2019 (1)
July 2019 (2)
March 2019 (1)
February 2019 (1)
January 2019 (1)
November 2018 (1)
September 2018 (2)
August 2018 (1)
July 2018 (2)
June 2018 (1)
May 2018 (1)
April 2018 (1)
January 2018 (2)
December 2017 (1)
November 2017 (1)
September 2017 (2)
August 2017 (6)
July 2017 (2)
June 2017 (3)
May 2017 (2)
April 2017 (1)
February 2017 (2)
January 2017 (3)
December 2016 (2)
November 2016 (3)
October 2016 (3)
September 2016 (3)
August 2016 (2)
July 2016 (1)
June 2016 (3)
May 2016 (2)
April 2016 (1)
March 2016 (4)
February 2016 (3)
January 2016 (5)
December 2015 (1)
November 2015 (2)
October 2015 (2)
September 2015 (1)
August 2015 (2)
July 2015 (3)
June 2015 (1)
May 2015 (2)
April 2015 (3)
March 2015 (3)
February 2015 (1)
January 2015 (2)
December 2014 (3)
November 2014 (1)
October 2014 (3)
September 2014 (2)
August 2014 (3)
July 2014 (1)
June 2014 (9)
May 2014 (4)
April 2014 (2)
March 2014 (3)
February 2014 (5)
January 2014 (2)
December 2013 (4)
November 2013 (4)
October 2013 (4)
September 2013 (3)
August 2013 (3)
July 2013 (3)
June 2013 (3)
May 2013 (4)
April 2013 (2)
March 2013 (4)
February 2013 (7)
January 2013 (13)
December 2012 (2)

6 responses to “The Boy The Man & Gravel Baseball”

Rudy Taylor

January 25, 2013

Brent, one of my early memories as a child was staying awake until your dad (my older brother) would come home from a date or ball game. We had a new table radio and sometimes he would take it to his bedroom where we both slept. He would turn it to the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Network and listen to Harry Caray as he gave play-by-play of a nighttime game. TT didn’t do that many times, but once we pulled the covers over our heads, stuck the radio inside with us, and two Cardinal pals from Timber HIll finished out a memorable game. That’s no big deal in today’s world as our smart phones, TVs and computers provide full-color coverage of everything imaginable. But at that time, we’d only had electricity for about a year, and that brand new radio was cutting edge technology for the Taylor home. So, I digress — just a thought triggered by your gravel baseball tale which, by the way, was excellent.

Reply
1. brent ray taylor
  
  January 25, 2013
  
  Rudy:
  
  It’s always great to here those stories that resonate across generations. I loved the crackle of AM radio late at night. Cards baseball, news reports on the hour with the lead in that sounded like a large lozenge dropping into a glass of water. Things seemed more dramatic and important and rare coming over the radio in a world with fewer channels and fewer devices. Thanks for reading…means a lot coming from a pro like you.
  
  bt
  
  Reply
Steve Osborn

January 25, 2013

You may not believe this; but I remember that bat.

Reply
1. brent ray taylor
  
  January 25, 2013
  
  Steve:
  
  You should just go ahead and write these yourself since you remember more details of my life than I do. No, I’m not surprised you remembered that bat.
  
  Do you remember where I put my baseball that I caught in the Astrodome off Jesus Alou’s bat? I haven’t been able to find it for years. And my Boston Album from 1977?
  
  bt
  
  Reply
Josh Spears

January 26, 2013

Mr. Brent,
Thanks for sharing these incredible memories. I think most young boys and even some young girls have had someone or some team they looked up to and pretended to be in their backyard wonderlands. For me it was Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell, Albert Pujols, Jim Edmonds, Octavio Dotel, Roger Clemens… Your absolutely right that these memories stick in our minds forever even when those heroes have gone. The way you wrote it took me back to my own backyard world series’. Thanks for the reminder of how the game was meant to be played and how great those days in the backyard really were.

Reply
1. brent ray taylor
  
  January 26, 2013
  
  Josh:
  
  Glad you enjoyed the post. Jenna said your version of backyard ball was batting golf balls into the woods. I hit a few of those myself with a bat. Think I even hit a few off of Petit Jean mountain once, but that’s another story altogether.
  
  Looking forward to seeing you play baseball sometime. I could have written an entire post on how I pitched entire games pretending to be Bob Gibson throwing a rubber baseball against the brick wall of our house with a square strike zone drawn on the wall with a sandstone rock as the chalk.
  
  Brent
  
  Reply

About
Blog name

Blog at WordPress.com.

Subscribe Subscribed
- Bespoke
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.