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b2 tribune august31 1988 hot and cold spells for softball squirts the stouffville softball squirts were hot and cold last week monday the choko design club took it right down to the wire against bramalea and came out on top 43 but there was no joy for stouffville thursday as aurora handled them easily 73 the squirts were behind for most of mondays game it was the top of the seventh and final inning with two out before they got anything going down 31 the team rallied for three consecutive runs to take the lead they then held their opponents hitless in the bottom of the seventh to take the win brad crozier pitched the game striking out 10 jeremy broun was the big hitter for stouffville going 4fori with three singles and a double lindsey haylow added a single and a double at home to aurora there was little to cheer about the squirts got behind early and never could come back aurora jumped all over stouffville in the first inning scoring three runs they never looked back haylow provided some sun shine on the miserable evening with a home run and a triple alike underwood and brad crozier combined for a fine pit ching performance striking out a total of 10 aurora batters millard reesor resident recalls hardb heyday markham minor hockey association skate and equipment exchange to be held at centennial arena in the cmr room on saturday september 10 1988 from 1000 am to 300 pm equipment and skates to be dropped off before sept 9th to arrange drop off please contact lynne obrien 4717451 danielle mackay 2947803 by bruce stapley millard reesor sits at the din ing room table of his parkview village home scanning old tribune clippings he reads of his days as a rightf ielder with the famed stouf fville nine baseball team of the 1930s hardball real baseball the kind of thing stouffville used to be known for ball would always be the topic of conversation on any street cor ner reesor claims of those years and there were some pretty good rivalries especially with sunderland but stouffville always had a good hardball team with a club made up of the likes of harold cook whose brother earl played in the big leagues the stouffville nine went all the way to the ontario intermediate c semifinals in 1934 and millard now 74 remembers every detail of the series in which they were finally ousted we played cayuga in a best two out of three series he says we lost the first game 65 in cayuga but we should have won that game we won at home 113 but then lost the rubber match in oakville 30 millard recalls the frustration felt by the stouffville players after the tough shutout loss we were hitting the ball hard but always right at somebody he says we were really disap pointed we came back into the clubhouse after the game and threw our gloves on the floor in disgust reesor played ball between assignments on his fathers farm at altona which he ended up working for 55 years games were scheduled for wednesday afternoon at 3 pm and he would either ride his bike or drive his 1930 plymouth coupe into stouffville but it could be a little difficult juggling farming and baseball sometimes especially road games its hard playing a ball game in oakville when you were sup posed to be helping your neighbor fill a silo at home he admits millard reesor remembers that certain stouffville businessmen were always willing to help the team make it to out-of- town games we were indebted to some kind businessmen he says percy tarr who ran the monu ment works would take us in his model a ford roy curtis who operated the drug store on main millard reesor browses through some old copies of the tribune which herald his days in the local baseball system reesor can recall every moment of the stouffville nines glory days almost 60 years ago jong park presents soumesay southisay says it costs nothing to be polite to hear your children say w or ms to adults is really quite nice courtesy is where we start our martial art jong park taekwondo i 25 heritage rd markham 2948880 wwuum ii i u m inn n i street art weldon who had a shoe store and fred button would also give us rides the team coach was under taker tim oneill the lineup consisted of the likes of wes boadway dinty hodgins and bruce lehman bruce was our righthanded pitcher millard says he had great control a good fastball and a good curve we also had jack pennock a leftie who would go in to give bruce a rest every once in a while of course back in those days a pitcher started a game and usually finished there were no relief pitchers millard recalls that the cat ching was done by lou lehman some thought he was the best amateur catcher in all of ontario harold cook played first base for us and reg button played se cond dinty hodgins was at third and wes boadway played short stop pete clendenning was in the outfield with me along with jack pennock there were always large crowds at home games reesor claims and he vividly remembers some of the more vocal fans exhorting the big hit ters like lou lehman and harold cook to hit one over the old elm tree that used to sit out in deep left centre field in the town diamond millard also remembers the first attempt at lighting the field so a game could be played bet ween a pickup team he was part of and a team from the sixth line it was in 1932 he reflects a fellow named fred mcnair went to the swamp and gathered up some cedar poles he wired them to the fenceposts and put reflec tors on them then he hooked up some high voltage lights to the reflectors it wasnt the best but could see a little he smiles reesor says he still sees some of his old team mates occasionally i havent seen harold cook since we played he lives in isl ington i hear jack pennock lives in aurora and i see him occasionally he runs across dinty hodges and reg button more regularly as both still live in stouffville reesor is a big blue jays fan i watch them on tv iused to go to the park and watch town baseball but not so much any more he lives at parkview with his wife dorothy and has one 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