Let's Go Red!
Posted 1 March 2007, 22:56
My cousin’s son John is a freshman at RPI and is a pitcher on their baseball team (he also swings a good bat). I was pleasantly surprised today to discover that his RPI bio page mentions my father (Tom) and his younger brother (Joe). My father was a pitcher and, from what I understand, he still holds some of the pitching records at Ticonderoga High School, which is the same HS that John attended. Joe was my father’s catcher. Technically they are John’s great-uncles, not his uncles as his bio page states. John’s grandfather was Tom and Joe’s older brother. Nice to see the old timers getting their props.
My father went head-to-head against Johnny Podres from Mineville High School more than once and beat him when they were seniors (1951) with pro scouts in the stands there to check out Podres, who would soon be drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers and would be named the MVP of the 1955 World Series.
RPI’s baseball season gets underway March 3rd with a double-header in Florida as part of the RussMatt College Spring Break Invitationals. They are ranked #23 in the NCAA Div. III pre-seaosn poll. I’ve got their May 5th game at Vassr marked on my calendar. If the weather’s nice and I don’t have anything urgent going on I may take a drive up to Poughkeepsie to catch that game and catch up with a high school buddy of mine who is the men’s basketball head coach at Vassar.
Go Red!
