Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:33 pm
Thank you all for your words. Dad was the guy who would ask everyone in the league why they choose their team names. He would show me the responses to prove that 9 times out of 10 there was a story behind players' team names. The reason why Dad was not a great player is that he would rarely choose players he didn't know. He grew up in Terre Haute Indiana in the 30s and 40s. He was a huge fan of the Terre Haute Phillies that played in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa (or 3-I league). Although he was brilliant, he never paid attention to the math of strat! He enjoyed watching the players he watched growing up, the Cardinals he listened to on the radio in the late 30s and 40s...then moving to Madison Wi for grad school in the 50s, The MKE Braves and then our beloved Brewers! His favorite player of all-time was Stan Musial (mine is Robin Yount)
Dad was also a big basketball fan. He grew up about a 7 iron away from the Indiana St. campus. Dad attended Indiana State High School which was on the college campus. He was the team manager for his high school team. The high school and college teams shared the same gym. The head coach took a liking to my father and would pass on a few tips to him now and then. The head coach was the great John Wooden. And yes, our family loves Larry Bird!
- Murray Snyder (Badriders)
