When We Were Young

I was looking through some old files recently, trying to find a document for taxes. And what should I see in the folders list but a folder named Softball. So I opened it, and discovered a bunch of softball game write-ups from the early 1990s, chronicling the exploits of the mars & co softball team in Greenwich, CT. I read one and had a few good laughs, remembering the summer evenings we could go play ball as wonderful oases of gloves and bases instead of grinding away on activity-based costing.

I asked Linda how most easily I could put some of this historical record online in case others needed an occasional diversion. The result is this blog. I am sure there are many more skilled than I who could do this better, with much cooler functionality, but you will have to do with what Bob Davis can accomplish.

Before we sold our house in Oakland and moved to Mexico (don't tell Al I am here), one chore was for me to collate all our physical photos into labeled Ziploc bags and send them off to a photo scanner in Oregon, I think. It was a weird feeling when I got them more or less properly labeled, saved on my laptop, and backed up in the cloud as well, that I then took 30+ years of photo memories to the trash can. But it was needed to happen so we could start to vagabond a little, and it turned out to be well worth it.

All that said, I found I had not so many as I expected of the softball games. I know for a fact, as referenced in one of the write-ups, that we had a team picture in 1992, taken by Zac Fisher. I have it somewhere, but cannot locate it. I think it is in storage in NorCal right now. If you have a copy, please scan and email it to me so I can add it here! Any other pics you might have are also welcome. But it was a LONG time ago, nearly 30 years.

That also applies to any newsletters you might for reasons no one knows have an old newsletter I don't have. My files are about 38 Word docs, covering 1992 and 1993 - our meteoric rise from the D league in 1991 to Champions of the Greenwich Industrial B League in 1993! But 1994 forward, I have no files, alas.

I hope some of these make you laugh. As I said above, they did me.

PS - there are Top 10 Lists floating around out there, too, that will make it to the blog as they surface. One I know I have for sure is titled Jimericks, compiled by Jim Andersen's loving co-workers upon his departure from the company. Stay tuned!

PSS - I know the background picture on the landing page is a baseball, finding a softball is on the to do list.

Bob and Butt Splice in our snazzy uniforms