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| Charles 'Bubba' Harris |
Those of you in the reading audience who are able to
contribute financially to a local athletic fundraiser are encouraged to give to
help pay for a trip that three Hillcrest track and field athletes are planning
to make to an international track and field meet in Orlando, Fla.
On Monday morning, coaches at Hillcrest told me that they
are still short of their $1,200 fundraising goal to pay for a trip being made
by Hillcrest track stars Mathew Likely, Mydarius Trujillo and Kyn’jarvis Gandy
to the Golden South Classic, an international, invitation-only, elite track and
field meet for high school students. All three received invitations to this
meet based on their performances at a track meet in Troy a few weeks ago.
The cost of the trip is $400 for each athlete and those
funds will go toward their food, entry fees, gas, hotel and travel expenses.
Based on how they perform in Orlando, they’ll possibly have the opportunity to
compete at a higher level track meet in New York in June.
Coaches ask that you make checks payable to the Hillcrest
High School Track Team and please write “Orlando Trip” on the memo line, so
that your donation will be earmarked for the upcoming trip.
Likely is generally considered to be one of the fastest, if
not THE fastest, high school sprinter in the state, and his teammates, Trujillo
and Gandy, aren’t far behind. For proof of this, check out the story elsewhere
on this week’s sport page that details their performance last week at the state
high school track and field championship meet.
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From the weird news file this week, I read in Friday’s
“Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” feature cartoon that a guy names Sean McEvoy
spent 58 cents on a Goodwill sweater, then discovered it was Green Bay Packers
coach Vince Lombardi’s and worth $20,000.
According to ESPN.com, the sweater was a West Point sweater
that had “Lombardi” written in black ink on a patch of cotton sown inside and
was worn by the coaching legend from 1949 to 1953 when he was a coach at West
Point.
The story went on to say that McEvoy sells vintage clothes
online and originally bought the sweater from a Goodwill store in Asheville,
N.C. Once he discovered what he had, he sold it at a New York City auction to a
buyer who wished to remain anonymous. McEvoy, who lives in Nashville, said that
when he first bought the sweater, he thought it was a basketball warm-up top.
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Today – Thurs., May 7 – also marks the anniversary of the
final Major League appearance of one of Alabama’s finest baseball players.
On May 7, 1951, Cleveland Indians pitcher Charles “Bubba”
Harris, a native of Sulligent, appeared in his last Major League game. Harris
was born in Sulligent on Feb. 15, 1926 and went on to play three seasons for
the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians. He passed away at the age
of 86 on Jan. 12, 2013 in Nobleton, Fla.
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