By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Brian Harman is a small, bald man from Savannah, Ga., who came from just this side of nowhere on Sunday in Hoylake, England, to win his third PGA Tour event ever. It was a major. The Open Championship, or, since we have an Open across the pond, too, the British …
Tag: baseball
Diamonds are forever but not for a while
By MONTE DUTTON Bryce Young fires to first. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This might be weird. I feel as if baseball is over. I haven’t watched so little major-league baseball on TV in more than 25 years. I kept hearing about how great the College World Series was, so I finally watched a couple games, …
When Jim Ed rocked the graveyard
By MONTE DUTTON Fenway Park, Boston (Pixabay photo) When Clinton High nailed down the Class 3A state baseball championship on May 23, I wrote the 5-4 victory over Hanahan was played in front of the largest crowd I’d ever seen for a high-school baseball game, at least in Clinton. This was on my mind for …
A long time ago, at an age far, far away
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) Duty called me to Greenwood on Tuesday. Specifically, it called me to the UPS Store to return some equipment to its provider. Options were about equally limited. I could drive to Spartanburg, Simpsonville or Greenwood, all about equidistant. I chose the city across the lake because I’d rather drive a …
The road to Red Devil
By MONTE DUTTON Shortstop Bryce Young throws out a Batesburg-Leesville batter (Monte Dutton photos). The Clinton Junior American Legion Post 56 baseball team has a long name and a long way to go. They’ll get there, though, Batesburg-Leesville Post 7’s 13-12 victory on Wednesday night, notwithstanding. Clinton High JV and assistant varsity coach Peyton Spangler …
Gettin’ by on gettin’ by
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) One of my favorite jokes to tell on myself is: Some of the time I’m a writer, but most of the time I’m just a typist. Right now, most of the time I’m a writer. Let me explain. The late Laurens County Sports and Furman All the Time were …
It takes a village
(Monte Dutton photos) Any successful team is a many splendored thing, but baseball takes it to the nth degree. Football requires many coordinated actions, but football players do not dash beyond the goalposts to retrieve the extra points. In high-school baseball, the junior varsity completes its game and then prepares the field for the varsity. …
Baseball had a heap of folks talkin’
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON In the 1980s, a song called “Talkin’ Baseball (Willie, Mickey and The Duke)” was so popular that its author, Terry Cashman, recorded alternative versions for every major-league team. Talkin’ baseball / Kluszewski, Campanella / Talkin’ baseball / The Man and Bobby Feller / The Scooter, The Barber and The …
And I love them so
(Fletcher Pruitt Jr. photo) (Monte Dutton photo) I’d hate to pick between baseball and football, and basketball is rising with a bullet in this writer’s pop chart. You can dance to basketball. (For those of you too young for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, it’s an old cliché. The crowds of wholesome youths would rate the …
Baseball to brag about
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON The first time I heard Asher Goss was injured, Tori Patterson told me about it before a Raider game. I thought, what a shame. I had no idea it was life-threatening. It could be that Tori didn’t know, either. Conditions apparently deteriorated quickly, but Goss pulled through, some dour …
Nightrider's Lament 