Getting in that mood again-----

[wagee12]

Don't know about you guys, but my life has come and gone and the last 40 years now seem like 40 months. On this Memorial Day Weekend, we must first honor our veterans and then I guess it's OK to do some reflecting. So I would ask you, when you really needed it, what song would you go to in your life to close a deal? Yeah, that deal! If I said Percy Sledge to you, no doubt you would say "When a Man Loves a Woman." But he had another song, and remembering this afternoon, it was a song that almost never, ever failed me!
This one is to a couple of ex-wives of a lawyer, the second runnerup to Miss Mississippi and the first cousin of ex-major leaguer Phil Roof, yes, up there in Paducah, Ky., Ms. Wendy Roof, no one finer, ever! I said it would be alright if you would just let me---------------------------

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aMcBs7hyk&feature=related

Add: I might just add before someone gets the wrong idea here, that I wasted about 12-14 years bumming around the southeast and midwest playing fast pitch softball. Did nothing much productive and wasted a whole lot of time during those years where I should have been building a profession. Anyway, started to respond to the Sheepscape style post by BoneVol in another thread concerning fast pitch, but hey, just let it ride!! BTW though BoneVol, if you read this, I did play on two Tennessee Major Men's fastpitch championship teams, two metro Memphis championship teams, played in three national tournaments and coached a high powered travel team for 5 1/2 years that compiled a 189-49 record and won an SEA FP World Series in Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee. The Memphis guy, Gene Lusby, paid all our expenses, and got us an easy job while we played for his team, Memphis Food Brokers. Five of my former teammates are now in the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame!

Oh, and one last thing, if Percy didn't work, then it was Bobby Hatfield time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8afc&feature=related

[SoftballVol]

Don't know about you guys, but my life has come and gone and the last 40 years now seem like 40 months. On this Memorial Day Weekend, we must first honor our veterans and then I guess it's OK to do some reflecting. So I would ask you, when you really needed it, what song would you go to in your life to close a deal? Yeah, that deal! If I said Percy Sledge to you, no doubt you would say "When a Man Loves a Woman." But he had another song, and remembering this afternoon, it was a song that almost never, ever failed me!
This one is to a couple of ex-wives of a lawyer, the second runnerup to Miss Mississippi and the first cousin of ex-major leaguer Phil Roof, yes, up there in Paducah, Ky., Ms. Wendy Roof, no one finer, ever! I said it would be alright if you would just let me---------------------------

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aMcBs7hyk&feature=related

Add: I might just add before someone gets the wrong idea here, that I wasted about 12-14 years bumming around the southeast and midwest playing fast pitch softball. Did nothing much productive and wasted a whole lot of time during those years where I should have been building a profession. Anyway, started to respond to the Sheepscape style post by BoneVol in another thread concerning fast pitch, but hey, just let it ride!! BTW though BoneVol, if you read this, I did play on two Tennessee Major Men's fastpitch championship teams, two metro Memphis championship teams, played in three national tournaments and coached a high powered travel team for 5 1/2 years that compiled a 189-49 record and won an SEA FP World Series in Pidgeon Forge, Tennessee. The Memphis guy, Gene Lusby, paid all our expenses, and got us an easy job while we played for his team, Memphis Food Brokers. Five of my former teammates are now in the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame!

Oh, and one last thing, if Percy didn't work, then it was Bobby Hatfield time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8afc&feature=related
Warner, did you ever run across a pitcher in men's fastpitch named Bill Hudson (http://www.ajc.com/sports/no-softball-bum-bill-535877.html)? He's my daughter's pitching instructor. She started going to him when she was still in 10U. He's probably too old for you to have run across him but it's possible.

[wagee12]

Warner, did you ever run across a pitcher in men's fastpitch named Bill Hudson (http://www.ajc.com/sports/no-softball-bum-bill-535877.html)? He's my daughter's pitching instructor. She started going to him when she was still in 10U. He's probably too old for you to have run across him but it's possible.

How old is he and who did he pitch for? Did he pitch for Futo's Wreckers in Atlanta? If you see him, ask him if he remembers any of the following, Mitch Harter (pitched for Futo Wreckers in Atlanta after pitching for Shell Oilers out of Lebanon, Tenn.), Joe Lynch (pitched for Clearwater Bombers after he pitched for Tammy Wynette's team in Nashville), Jim Johnson (6-5 pitcher who threw for several teams around Birmingham), Joe Tucker (slingshot pitcher who pitched for Birmingham and Tuscaloosa teams), Any of the Ivy boys out of Chattanooga (Al, James or Wes), big Tom Schmidt (6-6 lefthander out of Memphis). The most legendary pitcher, a guy I never saw who pitched int he 50s and early 60s was Buck Miller. He threw for Buckeye Oil Mill out of Memphis and as the legend goes, his job there was to walk around the warehouse and throw rocks at pidegons up in the rafters.