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Competing on the field
Competing on the field
Image: Lakeside School baseball team, 1967-68. Photo: Bruce R. Burgess.
I also played football and baseball. I was pretty good at both, but family and friends heard about my football exploits more so than baseball. … I was a bit cocky and the peninsula crowd knew it. They figured they would cut me down a peg with that epithet. Our regular catcher broke his collar bone trying to tag a guy out at home plate. I was put in as his substitute and during my warm up, I threw the ball over the second baseman's head. The crowd laughed and made pejorative comments about me. They stopped laughing after I gunned a guy out trying to steal second base. — June 2, 2010, T.J. Vassar ’68 autobiography
Artifacts: Lakeside baseball and baseball glove belonging to T.J. Vassar ’68. Courtesy of the Vassar family.
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