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This blog features: neighborhood restaurants, nearby restaurants, downtown restaurants, Casa View Shopping Center, nearby shopping, Downtown shops.

I will first list places and my connections with them. For the spirit of completeness, I will then list other places, known to me but not visited. I choose not to list the unknown.

I like the section entitled Places I Wish I Had Visited.

My focus is places and locations which existed from 1953, when I moved to Dallas, until 1965, when I graduated from high school. This list will continue with my college years, until I turned 21. I left Dallas in 1969 and, as I did not return except to visit my parents until 1973, my memory of East Dallas ends at that time.

Some categories were easy to separate – restaurants and shopping. Some experiences are not so easy to categorize, but are still meaningful. They may be all lumped in together, and then teased out as other connections are made.

Music wise, we may have thought we were born of the “wrong generation.” I always thought the older generation (i.e. 3 to 4 years older than me) had a richer and deeper experience.

But we, the beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, had it best – stable family life, rising expectations for the middle class and parents who wanted to give so much to their children, which most did not have in their childhood. We were left to play and roam outdoors to make our own fun. We had the best toys and the best music.

And yet we lived in tumultuous times – the Cold War, Civil Rights, Integration and the Kennedy Assassination through the killings of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Hopefully we came out as loving, caring, sharing adults whose experiences made us better people and gave us the ability to show appreciation and gratitude for the neighborhood and experiences which enriched us and our loved ones.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Church Baseball - My Fitful Summer with the St. Marks Braves



White Rock Church Baseball Association sponsored league play.

I played one year for the lowly St. Mark's Presbyterian Church Braves.  We did have a baseball field on church property.  I played second base and was at least able to hit singles out to right field.

We played at Harry Stone and the fields off of Poppy Drive by White Rock Lake.

I remember playing against Lakeview Christian, White Rock Methodist and the pitching talent of Danny Peavy at Lakeside Baptist Church.

The church offered free Cokes after practice along with a communicants class.  So even with a losing season, the church gained the entire team as new members.

I still have my Braves "B" letter which we had our mothers sew onto our blue baseball caps.

White Rock Churches Athletic Association began in 1954 with only three teams.  Now it has 116 baseball and softball teams WR 4-27-62.

White Rock Churches Athletic Association baseball league:
Casa Linda Presbyterian
Westshore Presbyterian
White Rock Methodist
St. Mark's Presbyterian
Lakeside Baptist
Lochwood Baptist
Casa View Methodist
Shiloh Terrace Baptist
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4 comments:

  1. Craig WeeksJuly 10, 2013 at 8:32 AM

    Casa View Baptist, too. I have photos to prove it. :)

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  2. Bob KingJuly 15, 2014 at 4:53 PM

    White Rock UMC Green Sox, circa 1968, 69 and maybe 70. Coach was Bill Richmond. I remember games at Winfrey Point and McCree Park. One other place I can't remember. Fun times.

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  3. UnknownJune 14, 2015 at 2:14 PM

    I played for Lochwood Baptist around that time. We practiced at Casa View Elementary which was nice because I lived about 100 yards from the baseball field on Farola! Seems like we played Westminster Presbyterian too.

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