Mays is overflowing with youthful memories, but focuses on kids futures
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Willie Mays has a lot of baseball memories that will bring a smile to his face, but he also wants to focus on future generations of baseball players. “I like to help people,” he says.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 2004
To sit and talk with Willie Mays is to walk into the Polo Grounds or Candlestick Park, hang with Monte Irvin or Bobby Bonds, lose your cap running first to third, and make a basket catch or three.
Willie Mays makes us young again. He makes us feel good about ourselves, our environment. He makes us reflect and smile. He makes us want to do better and be kinder.
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Lost-and-found photos recall great but short-lived San Antonio Bullets baseball team
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A 1965 Topps Joe Morgan card and 1971 Topps Steve Carlton card rest on a San Antonio Bullets jersey. The San Antonio minor league baseball team was affiliated for two seasons with the Houston Colt .45s, which later became the Astros. Future Hall of Famer Morgan was among the Bullets’ star players. At that same time, Carlton, a future Cardinals star, pitched in the Texas League.File /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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This is one of 36 photos of the San Antonio Bullets, a minor league team that existed only two years in 1963 and 1964. The photos were found in a batch of unrelated photos from the Cones Studio. It s not known who took the photos. This display appears to have been taken during a promotional event.CourtesyShow MoreShow Less
This Was Brainerd - April 29
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1921. Written By: Terry McCollough | ×
Kathy Bautch, 20, a student at Brainerd Community College, takes part in the pistol shooting competition at the 16th Minn. Law Enforcement Explorer Conference at Breezy Point. She is among seven members of the Explorers Post sponsored by Crow Wing County law enforcement, and is looking at a career in that field.
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20 years ago (2001)
The Warrior boys golf team tied for sixth place at the Alexandria Invitational Tournament with a score of 328, led by Jim Bender with a 79, and Justin Heitkamp and Joe Morgan with 82s. Alex won the event with a 319 score. Brainerd leads the conference standings with 13.5 points, with Alex and St. Cloud Tech tied at 13.