I coached basketball and baseball in Logansport for 40 years, and counting all of the regular season teams and all star teams, I probably coached around 1,500 young men and women. It all started in 1961 when I was a senior in high school when Larry Frey asked me to help him with middle school All Saints basketball. I also coached CYO basketball, Columbia Middle School boys and girls basketball and Logansport High School freshman basketball. The baseball coaching began with the 1963 Babe Ruth League season on the Eagles Braves after I had played on that team for three years. I actually coached some elementary baseball teams when Logansport's elementary schools had baseball programs, and I coached a year or two in Little League on the old RBM Shamrocks after I played on that team for four years.
In any case, the great majority of players that I coached I never saw too much of them after they left the teams. So, that left me with an image of them when they played on my teams. So, 30 years later former players walk up to me and I have no idea who they are.....people change a lot from 13 to 43 years old (and comparable ages in between). I can look at old pictures and recognize players, but when I see them now it takes a little introduction before I can put the face and name together. And, so here are a couple of examples of what I'm talking about.....(I used to try to take pictures each year to teams that I coached and individuals. If you want to see them be sure to go to my Facebook page. There are a bunch of them on there. If you want to look at my Facebook page you can try clicking on this: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=635370989...... Or, just go to www.facebook.com and enter "Dave Long." Don't know which would be the easiest way.
In any case, the great majority of players that I coached I never saw too much of them after they left the teams. So, that left me with an image of them when they played on my teams. So, 30 years later former players walk up to me and I have no idea who they are.....people change a lot from 13 to 43 years old (and comparable ages in between). I can look at old pictures and recognize players, but when I see them now it takes a little introduction before I can put the face and name together. And, so here are a couple of examples of what I'm talking about.....(I used to try to take pictures each year to teams that I coached and individuals. If you want to see them be sure to go to my Facebook page. There are a bunch of them on there. If you want to look at my Facebook page you can try clicking on this: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=635370989...... Or, just go to www.facebook.com and enter "Dave Long." Don't know which would be the easiest way.
Donnie McIntire on the Eagles Braves
This is Donnie McIntire in Babe Ruth League Baseball
Donnie McIntire
This is Donnie McIntire in a recent picture.
1964 Eagles Braves - My second team
Don Densborn is the little kid second from the left on the front row in this 1964 picture.
Don Densborn
This is Don Densborn in a recent photo.
1976 Eagles Braves
Jeff Ball is the kid on the right side of the middle row in this 1976 Eagles Braves photo.
Jeff Ball
This is Jeff Ball in a recent photo.