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Message: [QUOTE="mauconnfan, post: 2948431, member: 489"] We played against each other then. You played with Pat Desorbo and that gang. Nice pitching staff for sure forget the SS's name real nice player too, nice teams. Graduated '77 I believe like you I think, we were really good but you guys and Plainville had stud staffs we had no pitching to speak of. I knew Fontana because he also ref'd many of my HS basketball games. I also had some doghouse issues my senior year with my coach, ex-UConn catcher. I mean I grew up playing baseball for the guy and knew him very well, helped myself and my brother with out games (my bro played for the Mets in the system) from when we were like 12-13 years old. He was a counselor at Thomas Hooker for the summer in Meriden also and all he did was have baseball games all day. I rode my bike 20 minutes to get there all the time. If it wasn't baseball it was cotton ball with the skinny bat, wiffle ball or HR derby on the field. So when I went to HS myself and all the others who went to Hooker were already known and the plans were set. Played varsity from soph-senior always a .350 and up hitter until 8 games into my senior year, captain and hitting .188 or something he was all over me for "being too into a girl and losing my focus"...I was like you're me right, that's BS. Got to the next game vs Pulaski and I wasn't in the lineup, a first and very very unexpected. He lectured me every chance he could leading up to that game for 3-4 days, and during the first 6 innings of the game. I was poised to just say screw this and just get ready for legion and babe ruth. So half a week in the doghouse of a coach who I thought had my back (he did I just didn't know he knew me better than I could imagine, the trim was important to me that I was getting on the side maybe too much so LOL). I got in that game and doubled twice in my only 2 ABs. I told my GF we needed to take it slower (kinda) and I had a crazy rest of the year making him look like he knew what he was thinking. Had 3 4 hit games, one 6-6 game and most others were multiple the rest of the year. Despite no pitching we took it to the state semi's only to get beat by Brian Winters from Waterford 6'8 lefty who was drafted early by the Cubs I believe that year. Had 2 hits vs him too but we got beat 2-1. So the doghouse he put me in changed my senior year in baseball to a very positive one. I thanked him like mad and still see him, great guy passionate. I as well as may friends were lucky to have known him for so long and his doghouse was well thought out, we all saw it at one time or another.. lol [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach