Picture I just found

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Thought I'd share this with the baseball guys.  I found this picture and one other earlier today in an old dusty album.  Me and Tom Pagnozzi at Wrigley Field during his rookie season with the Cardinals.  The date I wrote on the back of the picture is 6/23/90.  There was one other, better quality but Pags had his head down so you couldn't see him.

He was protecting the pitchers warming up in the bullpen before the game and I guess he was just looking up in the crowd.  He saw some dude with a Hog hat on - at Wrigley Field in Chicago - so he got an usher to get my attention to come down and visit with him.  I did, and one of the guys in our group snapped the pictures.

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[The Boar War]

Great picture.

[dhornjr1]

Very cool. I was in St. Louis a week before that watching the Cardinals and Expos.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

I have a very good friend - native Arkie - who lives in Chicago and invites about 40 of his good friends up every year for a "Cubs Weekend."  I've gotten to go 6 or 7 times, unfortunately not much in recent years though.  As I recall, this particular trip when the picture with Pagnozzi was taken was the very first one of those weekends he hosted.

Fun times.

[dhornjr1]

It doesn't change the cool factor but Pagnozzi actually wasn't a rookie in '90. He first came up in '87 and was on the roster as a backup to Tony Pena in the '88 and '89 seasons as well.

[dhornjr1]

I have a very good friend - native Arkie - who lives in Chicago and invites about 40 of his good friends up every year for a "Cubs Weekend."  I've gotten to go 6 or 7 times, unfortunately not much in recent years though.  As I recall, this particular trip when the picture with Pagnozzi was taken was the very first one of those weekends he hosted.

Fun times.

Are you a Cubs fan and a Bud man?

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Are you a Cubs fan and a Bud man?

If the Cubs are playing anybody but the Cardinals, I root for the Cubs.  l

If they play the Cards - as they have on 3 of the trips I've gotten to take - I root for the Cards and endure the heckles of everybody else that is with us.

Been a Cardinal fan since I used to listen to the Gibson/Brock/Cepeda/McCarver group in the late '60s on AM radio in my bedroom at night.

[dhornjr1]

I just blew the picture up and it looks like Whitey Herzog standing at the plate with the umpires. That's interesting because he would resign as Cardinals manager in about two weeks.

[dhornjr1]

If the Cubs are playing anybody but the Cardinals, I root for the Cubs.  l

If they play the Cards - as they have on 3 of the trips I've gotten to take - I root for the Cards and endure the heckles of everybody else that is with us.

Been a Cardinal fan since I used to listen to the Gibson/Brock/Cepeda/McCarver group in the late '60s on AM radio in my bedroom at night.

Well, let me say you are one fine human being. 

[HROHog]

Awesome photo, I pull for the Cardinals as long as they are not playing the Braves.

My only "claim to fame" was going to high school at Valley Springs with Tim Sherrill. He had a brief career with the Cardinals ( nearly all of it in the minors ) after attending the UofA back in the late 80's, early 90's.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Well, let me say you are one fine human being. 

Not nearly as fine as the gentleman in your avatar.

Thanks for the correction on Pags' rookie season.  I had forgotten that he was up and down from the minors for a few years before he finally stuck.

[cubsfan5150]

Those were some sweet shorts you were sporting fella.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Those were some sweet shorts you were sporting fella.

HA!  I was wondering how long it would take for someone to take that swipe.  When I pulled that picture out, that was one of the first things I thought of:  "if I post this I'm gonna catch some grief for those shorts."

They were called coaching shorts, and it was a hot day.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[dhornjr1]

HA!  I was wondering how long it would take for someone to take that swipe.  When I pulled that picture out, that was one of the first things I thought of:  "if I post this I'm gonna catch some grief for those shorts."

They were called coaching shorts, and it was a hot day.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Short shorts on a hot day? I'll bet you were sticking to something.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Short shorts on a hot day? I'll bet you were sticking to something.

Since we all got very well lubricated on that trip, I doubt I stuck to anything.  Heilemann's Old Style by the 20 oz. cup.  We kept the vendor hopping all day!

[dhornjr1]

Since we all got very well lubricated on that trip, I doubt I stuck to anything.  Heilemann's Old Style by the 20 oz. cup.  We kept the vendor hopping all day!

Ah, the good old days. I remember them as well.