IN MEMORIAM

           (A ballplayer's prayer)

 

Dear God: Help me be a good sport in the game of life.

I don't ask for an easy place in the line-up. Put me anywhere you need me.

I only ask that I can give you 100-percent of everything I have.

If all the hard drives seem to come my way, I thank you for the compliment.

Help me remember that you never send a player more trouble than he can handle.

And help me Lord, to accept the bad breaks as part of the game.

May I always play on the square, no matter what the others do.

Help me study the Book so I'll know the rules.

Finally, God, if the natural turn of events goes against me

and I'm, benched for sickness or old age, help me to accept that as part of the game, too.

Keep me from whimpering that I was framed or that I got a raw deal.

And when I finish the final inning, I ask for no laurel.

All I want is to believe in my heart that I played as well as I could and that I didn't let you down.

 

IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING SILVER LEAGUE PLAYERS WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US

 

             Robert David Erbse  2012              
Al Kline  2011
Don Andrews  2011
Chick Meierhofer  2011

Al Alexander 2011

Tom Daugherty 2011
 


                          BRO (JAMES) MUSGRAVE 2010

                   CARL W. DAVIS  2010

             JOHN HAYES  2010

                   FRED CHRIST  2010

                          GORDON TEITSWORTH, 2009

                        TONY CAIRNS, 2009

                           DON MALLORY, 2009

                            RON MORTON, 2009

                            ED SIMON, 2009

                            CURTIS LAUFHUTTE, 2009

                            ELMER "ED" DANIELS, 2008

                            BOB "BOZ" BOSNYAK, 2008 

 
Thanks to John Mitchell for supplying the poem.