ABOVE: Baseball AII-Sttln. FRONT ROW: Sims Dailey, Garrett Timmerman , Dick Johnson , Phil Futrell , Harold Norwood, Marsh Goodson. BACK ROW, Glen Organ, Bill Stafford. Vernon Mossey, Paul Huff, Don Johnston, Joe Hightower, Kelly Randolph. NOT PICTURED: Keith Boler. RIGHT: Baseball Champs, Cards . FRONT ROW: Gorrett Timmerman , Glen McNeese, Conway Sexson, Marsh Goodson . BACK ROW: Keith Boler, George O'Neal, Roy Murray, Kelly Randolph . NOT PICTURED: Jerry Mitchell, Dick Coxsey. , Baseball And Track End It happens every spring! The men of the diamond highlighted the spring athletic agenda. The slap of leather and the crack of bats drew enough hardy participants to compose two leagues - a major and a minor circuit. Both leagues sported five well-matched nines of unusual caliber and poise. The Cards of captain Marsh Goodson finished in the driver's seat with a 4-1 record. followed by the Braves who posted a 3-2 mark. In the lower league the Harding Academy was almost invulnerable in their march to the pennant. An all-star game followed the regular season and featured such names as Joe Hightower, Don Johnston, Dick Johnson, Bill Stafford and Keith Boler. Hightower captured a 1-0 pitchers' duel from Garrett Timmerman to climax the season. LEFT: took what I found Don . Harold Norwood calls bolls o'ld strikes behind catcher Bill Stafford in tightly contested AII ·$tar tilt. LOWEI LEFT: Minor League All-Stan. FRONT ROW: Ben Camp, Don Berryhill, Timmy Rhodes, Bob Tiffin. BACK ROW: Bill Moore, George Treadway, Homer Wright, Gerald Cosey, Robert Kissire, Gerold Ransom. BELOW: Cecil and Dewey lalk over the latest gossip while enjoying the daily diamond affray.
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