"The Earl Campbell Story: A Football Great's Battle with Panic Disorder" by Earl Campbell and John Ruane (sent to Edwin Quarles on 8/17/19) - $2.75
"Thirty-One And Six: The Story of Denny McLain" by Robert B. Jackson (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19) - $10.50
"Nolan Ryan: Texas Fastball to Cooperstown" by Ken Anderson (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"The Baseball Life of Willie Mays" by Lee Greene (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"Pro Basketball Champions" by George Vecsey (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"The Pass Catchers" by Lou Sahadi (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"Dynamite On Ice: The Bobby Orr Story" by Hal Bock (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"All-Pro Baseball Stars 1976" by Bruce Weber (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"All-Pro Baseball Stars 1980" by Bruce Weber (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"All-Pro Basketball Stars 1980" by Bruce Weber (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"All-Pro Football Stars 1975" by Jerry Brondfield (sent to Kevin Taylor on 9/4/19)
"The Front Four: Greene | Reid | Page | Olsen" by Bill Gutman (Finished October 11)
"Johnny Unitas" by Joel H. Cohen (Finished October 31)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Multiple Weekend Plans; October 15, 2019
So I have three more events (or races) for 2019 and that's it.
I asked off for Thanksgiving as well as a race that is just four days before Christmas.
Saturday I will fulfill my commitment to the Seven Hills Running Club to announce its Huntsville Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon and 5K, which starts and finishes at the Walker County Fairgrounds.
Then I have two cross country meets -- the UIL Region III meet in Huntsville and the NXR South meet in The Woodlands the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
I'll make decisions regarding those meets sometime the early part of next year, but I'm looking forward to being done with announcing road races.
I've had a good career, if you want to call it that.
I've made a lot of friends and acquaintances, for which I'm grateful and thankful for.
Now what am I going to do the rest of this coming weekend? Not sure.
I have two paths. Well, really three. Maybe even four.
Going north from Huntsville, I can either go to the Southwestern Assemblies of God University football game in Waxahachie at 2:00 p.m. or the Tarleton State game in Stephenville at 6 p.m.
There's a couple of race options for Sunday morning, but just depends how much driving I want to do.
I have one option where I'd go to Nacogdoches to see a volleyball game at SFA at 1 p.m. and then a football game in Natchitoches, La. at 6:00 p.m. and then drive south to LaPlace, La. for a race on Sunday morning.
Or I could drive straight to Denham Springs, La. and catch a couple of women's junior college basketball games before going on to LaPlace.
Like yesterday's post title, "We'll see."
I was given $50 in Barnes & Noble gift cards recently. Well, OK, really it was Sunday.
So, I put them to good use on Monday when I arrived here in the Franklin / Brentwood area of Tennessee for work before I made it to the client site.
For $3.74, which, of course, included the tax, I got three books that I found interesting to read.
The first one, "Northern Lights", is pretty good and I've already knocked out 88 of the book's 202 pages. Like this one, the other two have sports and faith-based themes.
Not too much more to talk about.
Dan Morgan asked me on Sunday if there might be any games that we could broadcast on Friday night, but my concern is that I know I won't be available the next two weeks because of going to Washington, D.C. with Waverly as she runs the Marine Corps Marathon and the following week flying back to Pennsylvania to drive my grandmother's car back to Texas.
And to close out the post, I noticed within the last 24 hours that Shots For Holly got a press mention in a story in the Spring Observer.
It also indicated that Shots For Holly would be hosting a flu shot event on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 13131 Fry Road in Cypress.
If you haven't got your flu shot for the current season, this would be a great way to get it taken care of.
This not-for-profit charity was established after my sister, Holly, passed away from the flu in January 2014. Michelle Becker and her team have constantly been doing a great job in raising flu shot awareness in our communities since Holly passed away.
I asked off for Thanksgiving as well as a race that is just four days before Christmas.
Saturday I will fulfill my commitment to the Seven Hills Running Club to announce its Huntsville Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon and 5K, which starts and finishes at the Walker County Fairgrounds.
Then I have two cross country meets -- the UIL Region III meet in Huntsville and the NXR South meet in The Woodlands the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
I'll make decisions regarding those meets sometime the early part of next year, but I'm looking forward to being done with announcing road races.
I've had a good career, if you want to call it that.
I've made a lot of friends and acquaintances, for which I'm grateful and thankful for.
Now what am I going to do the rest of this coming weekend? Not sure.
I have two paths. Well, really three. Maybe even four.
Going north from Huntsville, I can either go to the Southwestern Assemblies of God University football game in Waxahachie at 2:00 p.m. or the Tarleton State game in Stephenville at 6 p.m.
There's a couple of race options for Sunday morning, but just depends how much driving I want to do.
I have one option where I'd go to Nacogdoches to see a volleyball game at SFA at 1 p.m. and then a football game in Natchitoches, La. at 6:00 p.m. and then drive south to LaPlace, La. for a race on Sunday morning.
Or I could drive straight to Denham Springs, La. and catch a couple of women's junior college basketball games before going on to LaPlace.
Like yesterday's post title, "We'll see."
I was given $50 in Barnes & Noble gift cards recently. Well, OK, really it was Sunday.
So, I put them to good use on Monday when I arrived here in the Franklin / Brentwood area of Tennessee for work before I made it to the client site.
For $3.74, which, of course, included the tax, I got three books that I found interesting to read.
The first one, "Northern Lights", is pretty good and I've already knocked out 88 of the book's 202 pages. Like this one, the other two have sports and faith-based themes.
Not too much more to talk about.
Dan Morgan asked me on Sunday if there might be any games that we could broadcast on Friday night, but my concern is that I know I won't be available the next two weeks because of going to Washington, D.C. with Waverly as she runs the Marine Corps Marathon and the following week flying back to Pennsylvania to drive my grandmother's car back to Texas.
And to close out the post, I noticed within the last 24 hours that Shots For Holly got a press mention in a story in the Spring Observer.
It also indicated that Shots For Holly would be hosting a flu shot event on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 13131 Fry Road in Cypress.
If you haven't got your flu shot for the current season, this would be a great way to get it taken care of.
This not-for-profit charity was established after my sister, Holly, passed away from the flu in January 2014. Michelle Becker and her team have constantly been doing a great job in raising flu shot awareness in our communities since Holly passed away.
Monday, October 14, 2019
We'll See; October 14, 2019
Lots of things to say and lots of things not to say.
First of all, I'm thankful that my parents made it safely back to Texas today after driving a van back from Pennsylvania after clearing the last items from my grandparents' house that is getting ready to sell.
When I go up there in a couple of weeks to drive my grandmother's car to Texas, it will be the first time that I go back and not be able to go in that house. Not quite sure what my emotions will be.
At the moment, though, the best thing is that I'm finally starting to feel much better after battling an ear infection for about three weeks.
Well, a week and a half prior to getting officially diagnosed, I didn't win with my own remedies, but the amoxicillin, which did clear things up, wrecked havoc on my stomach until last Friday, October 3, when I didn't take the last three tablets of a seven-day supply.
I tried running last Tuesday night and it was ugly. Just getting the desire back to begin working out again.
I announced two races this past weekend - the 14th annual Memorial Hermann Ten For Texas on Saturday in The Woodlands and the second annual Bearkat Bolt 5K in Huntsville on Sunday.
These days are going by the wayside. Even though I do what I do very well, I want my time back.
Some races over the years I've been paid and others I've done pro bono, donating my time in the community.
There are four high school cross country meets that I do. I probably hold on to those, but I let three race producers over the weekend know that I was done and I don't feel one bit bad about it.
I have one more producer to let know and will shortly and another I will let them know that I will handle things up to the start of the race, but I'm not spending all day there as I have for many, many years.
How will I fill the time? I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm going to try my best to fill it with something that I enjoy.
My desire on Texas private and parochial high school athletics has again faded here recently.
We'll see where that goes. Might be a thing that I do in moderation, but my failing is that what I do there I have a natural tendency to go all in and be better than everybody else - and that might not always be the most healthy thing.
So it is one of those things where it will be, "We'll see." Have two great friends, Dan Morgan and David Fuller, who are likeminded, and I enjoy doing the things that we do together to promote the sports.
Maybe I have to learn to take smaller doses on everything.
I know this weekend after announcing the Huntsville Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon and 5K I have plans to roam.
I want to check another Texas stadium off my list - after not going to Texas Lutheran this past Saturday night (where a good friend, Patrick Zarate, was inducted to their Athletics Hall of Fame). I'm still a little bummed that I missed it when I learned about it early this morning.
What I have targeted is Tarleton State in Stephenville, but it is filling the time around it up.
There are two races on Sunday in Louisiana that I can run, but a lot of driving on Saturday (and Sunday) to do all that I can possibly squeeze in. I'm sure I'll look at things multiple times before deciding what I'm going to do.
Even while eating dinner tonight, I maybe want to get back to my running a mile in every Texas county - and do some of that this weekend.
Which leads me back to "We'll see." A popular refrain and one that I'm thankful I can say that I have available to me.
If you're reading, thanks for doing so.
First of all, I'm thankful that my parents made it safely back to Texas today after driving a van back from Pennsylvania after clearing the last items from my grandparents' house that is getting ready to sell.
When I go up there in a couple of weeks to drive my grandmother's car to Texas, it will be the first time that I go back and not be able to go in that house. Not quite sure what my emotions will be.
At the moment, though, the best thing is that I'm finally starting to feel much better after battling an ear infection for about three weeks.
Well, a week and a half prior to getting officially diagnosed, I didn't win with my own remedies, but the amoxicillin, which did clear things up, wrecked havoc on my stomach until last Friday, October 3, when I didn't take the last three tablets of a seven-day supply.
I tried running last Tuesday night and it was ugly. Just getting the desire back to begin working out again.
I announced two races this past weekend - the 14th annual Memorial Hermann Ten For Texas on Saturday in The Woodlands and the second annual Bearkat Bolt 5K in Huntsville on Sunday.
These days are going by the wayside. Even though I do what I do very well, I want my time back.
Some races over the years I've been paid and others I've done pro bono, donating my time in the community.
There are four high school cross country meets that I do. I probably hold on to those, but I let three race producers over the weekend know that I was done and I don't feel one bit bad about it.
I have one more producer to let know and will shortly and another I will let them know that I will handle things up to the start of the race, but I'm not spending all day there as I have for many, many years.
How will I fill the time? I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm going to try my best to fill it with something that I enjoy.
My desire on Texas private and parochial high school athletics has again faded here recently.
We'll see where that goes. Might be a thing that I do in moderation, but my failing is that what I do there I have a natural tendency to go all in and be better than everybody else - and that might not always be the most healthy thing.
So it is one of those things where it will be, "We'll see." Have two great friends, Dan Morgan and David Fuller, who are likeminded, and I enjoy doing the things that we do together to promote the sports.
Maybe I have to learn to take smaller doses on everything.
I know this weekend after announcing the Huntsville Half Marathon, Quarter Marathon and 5K I have plans to roam.
I want to check another Texas stadium off my list - after not going to Texas Lutheran this past Saturday night (where a good friend, Patrick Zarate, was inducted to their Athletics Hall of Fame). I'm still a little bummed that I missed it when I learned about it early this morning.
What I have targeted is Tarleton State in Stephenville, but it is filling the time around it up.
There are two races on Sunday in Louisiana that I can run, but a lot of driving on Saturday (and Sunday) to do all that I can possibly squeeze in. I'm sure I'll look at things multiple times before deciding what I'm going to do.
Even while eating dinner tonight, I maybe want to get back to my running a mile in every Texas county - and do some of that this weekend.
Which leads me back to "We'll see." A popular refrain and one that I'm thankful I can say that I have available to me.
If you're reading, thanks for doing so.
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