How does your youth trophy case compare to your son’s or daughter’s ?

Why? Who cares?

FormerLa - 28 March 2008 03:03 PM

How does your youth trophy case compare to your son’s or daughter’s ?

How does yours??

I lived many places as a youngster, everywhere I lived only the team in 1st place got trophies or if you were on the All-Star team.  Nowadays everybody gets a trophy.  Back then they were made of some kind of metal versus the plastic versions today.

fred - 29 March 2008 08:57 AM

FormerLa - 28 March 2008 03:03 PM

How does your youth trophy case compare to your son’s or daughter’s ?

How does yours??

Mine is not an acurate portrayal.

I made the varsity teams of a then 4A (top bracket back then) as a Soph
I lived and breathed football, baseball and basketball.
I was blessed by God to have natural athletic ability.
I have several trophies but this was back when normally only 1st place received individual trophies.
I have lots of no hitter game ##### I pitched, three home runs in one game , made all star teams one game had 3 interceptions against our rival in football etc etc etc

Although my children have ability they have no desire to play sports preferring to indulge more in the arts etc
Therefore, I do not push my vicariousness upon them.

None of my kids have ever been on a sports team but I have seen lots of kids rooms that would probably make Pistol Pete jealous.
These days its all about everyone is a winner and what kind of snack are we having after the game. Yaddah yaddah yaddah.

Tony G - 30 March 2008 02:50 PM

I lived many places as a youngster, everywhere I lived only the team in 1st place got trophies or if you were on the All-Star team.  Nowadays everybody gets a trophy.  Back then they were made of some kind of metal versus the plastic versions today.

That was my point.

I played on many 1st place teams and I have seen kids that have more trophies than I do and would have never gotten off the bench .

FormerLa - 31 March 2008 09:42 AM

fred - 29 March 2008 08:57 AM

FormerLa - 28 March 2008 03:03 PM

How does your youth trophy case compare to your son’s or daughter’s ?

How does yours??

Mine is not an acurate portrayal.

I made the varsity teams of a then 4A (top bracket back then) as a Soph
I lived and breathed football, baseball and basketball.
I was blessed by God to have natural athletic ability.
I have several trophies but this was back when normally only 1st place received individual trophies.
I have lots of no hitter game ##### I pitched, three home runs in one game , made all star teams one game had 3 interceptions against our rival in football etc etc etc

Although my children have ability they have no desire to play sports preferring to indulge more in the arts etc
Therefore, I do not push my vicariousness upon them.

None of my kids have ever been on a sports team but I have seen lots of kids rooms that would probably make Pistol Pete jealous.
These days its all about everyone is a winner and what kind of snack are we having after the game. Yaddah yaddah yaddah.

My children participated in PARDS (Parks and Recreation Denham Springs) Baseball and on Denham Springs High School Swim Team.
The Baseball program at PARDS gave trophies (and small trophies at that) only to the first place teams for each age group. My oldest son has 4 or 5 of those, my youngest son has 1. If you made the All Star team you got to keep the cap and jersey. I saw parents of other teams buy trophies for their teams, but the kids seemed to be aware that they didn’t win those. I don’t know how the soccer leagues (Sissy Sport!) handled their awards.

As far as the high school athletics, my youngest son lettered 3 years, and I think aside from winning LHSAA medals, ribbons, etc. from individual swim meets, he received certificates for making it to the State swim meets. He may have received a couple of participation awards for invitational events. His most prized swimming award is a one mile swim patch earned at Camp Avondale (BSA) when he was 10.

I can honestly say that those two guys earned what they received. Denham Springs has really been a great place to raise kids. I hate to see the inflow from Baton Rouge continuing.

Denham does have a pretty good program.

FormerLa - 31 March 2008 03:05 PM

Denham does have a pretty good program.

We moved there from East Baton Rouge Parish in ‘89. I judged that we could use the public schools and have a better lifestyle. My boys are both at LSU now. Moving to Denham Springs is a decision that I have never regretted. Most of the people were there for the same reasons and because of that you pretty much had similar values regarding education and the overall welfare of your children.

Of course, now that I’m there, I’d like to close the gate behind me.

The only thing I ever regretted was the durn commute.  The traffic is crazy.

dirty dan - 31 March 2008 02:15 PM

FormerLa - 31 March 2008 09:42 AM

fred - 29 March 2008 08:57 AM

FormerLa - 28 March 2008 03:03 PM

How does your youth trophy case compare to your son’s or daughter’s ?

How does yours??

Mine is not an acurate portrayal.

I made the varsity teams of a then 4A (top bracket back then) as a Soph
I lived and breathed football, baseball and basketball.
I was blessed by God to have natural athletic ability.
I have several trophies but this was back when normally only 1st place received individual trophies.
I have lots of no hitter game ##### I pitched, three home runs in one game , made all star teams one game had 3 interceptions against our rival in football etc etc etc

Although my children have ability they have no desire to play sports preferring to indulge more in the arts etc
Therefore, I do not push my vicariousness upon them.

None of my kids have ever been on a sports team but I have seen lots of kids rooms that would probably make Pistol Pete jealous.
These days its all about everyone is a winner and what kind of snack are we having after the game. Yaddah yaddah yaddah.

My children participated in PARDS (Parks and Recreation Denham Springs) Baseball and on Denham Springs High School Swim Team.
The Baseball program at PARDS gave trophies (and small trophies at that) only to the first place teams for each age group. My oldest son has 4 or 5 of those, my youngest son has 1. If you made the All Star team you got to keep the cap and jersey. I saw parents of other teams buy trophies for their teams, but the kids seemed to be aware that they didn’t win those. I don’t know how the soccer leagues (Sissy Sport!) handled their awards.

As far as the high school athletics, my youngest son lettered 3 years, and I think aside from winning LHSAA medals, ribbons, etc. from individual swim meets, he received certificates for making it to the State swim meets. He may have received a couple of participation awards for invitational events. His most prized swimming award is a one mile swim patch earned at Camp Avondale (BSA) when he was 10.

I can honestly say that those two guys earned what they received. Denham Springs has really been a great place to raise kids. I hate to see the inflow from Baton Rouge continuing.

My kids played and I coached(a little) PARDS baseball. I was never really impressed by it, the quality of play was never what I experienced playing American Legion Baseball in Baton Rouge. Of course American Legion BB is no longer around. PARDS is a good participatory league and affordable as well.

One of my sons went on to play college BB but wasn’t really trained in the PARDS league. DSHS always has a lot of talent in baseball but they never seem to use it very well.

There is really no soccer league in DS, except for the little kids. Both of my boys missed that when we moved.

We moved to DS 10 years ago and I have never regretted it. I don’t mind the growth but would love to see it slow somewhat.

As for trophies, I’ve got plenty of boxes of them in my barn collecting dust.

American Legion baseball gone?  I played three years in PA.  Up there when you made the All-Stars in Legion Ball you went to a central location within your quarter of the state.  There was like a mini tryout camp for colleges and pro ball.  I didn’t gain any size until I was in my twenties, I was tall and thin.  There were dudes there that were as big as houses.  There were guys that threw pills.  I always wondered if they made anything of themselves in baseball.  There was a fella that played for Tulane, his name was Tookie Spahn.  I was friends with his uncle.  Talk about a family blessed with baseball talent.  I met Tookie once, he was in the minor leagues in the Detroit system.  I asked him how the pitching was.  He said it was like when you play a team in college or high school they have one or two stands outs on the mound.  When you get to out of college into the minors every pitcher you run across is a stand out, no slauches.  Getting back to my friend, he’s about 13 years older than me.  He told me he was in an All-Star game in NOrthern Louisiana, there was a young tall man pitching.  Nobody down here had ever seen him pitch let alone heard of him.  He pitched a nine inning game, 90 pitches.  Nobody even tipped the ball.  They kept calling him Blue.  It was Vida Blue!