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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4708506, member: 1609"] I’m not going to look back except how my past possibly could have an unsuspected meeting with my future I was a Big Kid 215 in HS , OT on a top HS football team , First Base and Co-Captain of the baseball team . A great half court BBer especially for money . I was a good HS hitter with a long hitting streak my senior year . Nice but the only thing legendary about me was my speed on the bases or lack of it . I was a right handed pull hitter and we played on a football field . Home plate was the corner of one end zone and left field was the entire football field 360 ft , plus a small grass area , a track , more grass and a tall Paige fence that surrounded the whole complex . Well over 400 ft to the fence . I hit a shot that went about 350 ft in the air: and rolled to the fence ( there was a tail wind that day) The fact I had to slide into third . The throw actually beat me but the fielder dropped the ball and it was scored a double and an error . My 400 ft double was never forgotten by my coach and teammates and my lack of speed became part of my legacy. In my defense i did stay a bit to long at the plate admiring it forgetting for a second everything hit to left was in play. Fast Forward to 2023 I watched the Penn Relays senior sprinters The guy my age ( over 80 ) who won the 100 ran it in 26 seconds . Just for kicks I’ve been timing myself . My bests times are not that far off. I’m about 180lbs if I could get to about 170 and train I think ,I may officially become a world class sprinter.for my age , How’s that for irony? The tortoise becomes the hare. [/QUOTE]

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