Pick-up baseball game at Mumford.  Large guy playing first base; had never seen him before.

Batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop, who throws over to first base.  Ball takes a short hop about two feet in front of first baseman -- one of the hardest catches in baseball to make.  First baseman leans down and backhands the short hop as if it were the esiest thing in the world to do.  My jaw drops, and stays dropped for a good minute.  Had never seen someone make such a difficult play so nonchalantly -- especially someone in his mid-teens.

Over and above all the other Hall of Fame things he went on to do, that, to me, was Frank Goldberg.

To add to my comment on the motorcycle picture, re Marshall Rubinoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spike_Drivers#:~:text=Rubinoff%2C%20who%20was%20married%20to,days%20past%20his%2024th%20birthday.

Posted on: Sep 01, 2023 at 6:39 AM

Re the motorcycle picture: Still remember riding around on the back of that bike. Maybe my greatest thrill at Michigan. Probably the reason I got my own bike (1978 Honda CK 750, single overhead cam 4-cylinder) the first chance I got. Sad that Marshall Rubinoff's experience with motorcycling didn't end as successfully as yours More…

Posted on: Sep 01, 2023 at 6:35 AM

Posted on: Aug 14, 2023 at 5:42 PM

Marshall: Not seeing much of an "updated profile"(??)
How've you been? Are either of your brothers still with us: David and (I believe) Michael?
Fond memories of Woodhull Lake, your cottage on the corner, a block up from The Big House.
Remember when you got the beagle puppy; you called it a "bagel" puppy, which, as 12-year-olds, we found hilarious!
Remember you living in the "old neighborhood" (Dexter/Linwood/Davison/etc.) quite a while after most everyone else had moved up to the Woodward-Livernois-Wyoming-Meyers "corridor". And then, when you DID move, doing it with a splash: gorgeous T-Bird; swanky leather jackets, etc.
Can't remember why the sudden change in "situation" (thought it had to do with some sort of real estate deal [or business] that finally "broke through").
Anyway, if you'd like to reminisce a little more, feel free to email me — davidrives@hotmail.com — or call: (805) 901-6071.
Love ya!

A real "pepper pot".  A go-getter.  Never a "down" moment.

Remember Share Pharmacy, just off of 6 Mile, near Palmer Park.

Remember Jerry's lovely home on Pennington, a couple doors north of Margareta.

Sad that we never got together in later years, even though we lived just a half-hour away from each other -- I, in Liberty, Missouri, Jerry in Overland Park, Kansas, possibly the most upscale city in the entire state (think our own Sherwood Forest and Palmer Woods).

Glad we got to know each other, my friend.

Posted on: Jun 19, 2023 at 4:35 PM

Happy Birthday, Irv. Any updates on your work (cancer, etc.)? BTW, was I wrong in saying, five years ago, that it's likely that you owe your whole career to mainly one man: Mr. Strzepek?

How ya doin', old "partner-in-crime" (cf, "The Merciless Pistons"?)

Posted on: Nov 25, 2022 at 2:27 PM

Still remember when you got accepted to Berkeley. "'Berkeley?!', I thought. "Who the hell goes 2,000 miles to go to college, when you've got U of M all of 44 miles up the train tracks?!" It was as shocking as if you had said, "I just got acce[ted to the University of the MOON"!
Obviously, I never found out exactly how it went at Berkeley, so, when you've got a minute……

Posted on: Sep 08, 2022 at 8:08 AM

Happy Birthday, Hugh ("Hugh"??)

Posted on: Jul 06, 2022 at 6:55 AM

Will never forget how you (and Dan Rosenshine, may he rest in peace) shocked everyone with your National Merit Scholarship score! If I remember right, you got 149 and Dan got 150, to lead our class. Am I close?