

BASEBALL TALK
The Baseball All Star game was played last Tuesday night. The American League won the game 4 to 0. The National League got three hits. Nobody on the National League team made it past first base. The All Star game has changed. Some players chosen do not want to participate. The game has changed many players make a great deal of money. Some have long-term contracts. They do not want to play in a game that does not count and take a chance on getting an injury that could hurt the

Ron Turett
2 days ago2 min read
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REMEMBERING SOUPY SALES
He was born in Franklin, North Carolina in 1926. His name was Milton Supman. He had two older brothers. His father died when he was six years old. In 1944 the family moved to Huntington, West Virginia. Soupy was in the Navy during W.W. 2. He started entertaining on the ship. When the war ended, he went to Marshall College and received a master's degree in journalism. When he graduated college, he started writing comedy and got a job as a disc jockey. The new medium called te

Ron Turett
4 days ago3 min read
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THE SECOND TUESDAY IN JULY
In 1953 we moved into our new house located at the far corner of northwest Detroit. This was a new area actually still partially surrounded by woods. A section of those woods was soon cleared and developed into a new park. We lived in the second house from the corner very close to the new park. The new Vandenberg Elementary School was under construction on the outskirts of the park and opened in the winter of 1954. I was there the first day it opened. The park was called Coms

Ron Turett
Jul 134 min read
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