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Gary Hesse
When my family decided to purchase a home in Upper Hastings Ranch in early 1959, and after the bid was accepted, our residence in Lower Hastings Ranch was put up for sale (it was the parsonage for Faith Lutheran Church). Well, one of the first couples to see the house with their realtor were the newly weds, Don and Ginger Drysdale. They did not put in a bid, but I still have their signatures on the seller’s guest registry.
BTW, the father of one of our fellow graduates, Dale Wade, was Ben Wade, a major league pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers 1952-1954) and later, Ben spent many years as a scout and then director of scouting for the Los Angeles Dodgers, supplying the team with players that would lead it to eight National League championships and four World Series titles during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s!
Dale’s younger brother was also an MLB pitcher, but, as IRRC, it was a very, very short career!
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I still have the original program from when the New York Yankees played the USC Trojan baseball team on 3/26/1951 and my Father was there and keeping score in the seats on an official program…Mickey Mantle, that day, hit two of the longest home runs ever recorded in baseball history!! After the game, he signed the program and initialed the scorecard where each of the HR’s was hit! It is the only recorded program in which MM hit those home runs as a full MLB Yankee, but before every playing in a MLB game!! It was also the game at which MM eclipsed Joe DiMaggio in the outfield spot. The program will be put up for auction in a few years, but, don’t forget, Joe DM married Marilyn Monroe!!! Hey Joe, do you want to trade???
Marilyn Monroe is another personal memory from the early 60’s, when she perished!
…Those were the days my friend, those were the days……
Gary
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