Ron Smith
This post is mostly for Dave "Lefty" Carpenter. I was at my brother Doug's house the other day and he showed me a little league baseball scrapbook that our mom had put together for my twin brothers Doug & Dave.I never knew that she had made them one too. I guess I wasn't as special as I thought. Lefty Carpenter is about a year younger than most of us and he was only 12 at the time. I didn't realize what a great ball player Lefty was then playing for the Kiwanis. He was 7th in the league in hitting with a .405 batting average,was 2nd in the league in innings pitched,was 1st in strikeouts as a pitcher with 64 and was 1st in earned run average in the league with 2.95 runs per game as a pitcher.
Doug has had a glass counter in his living room for years filled with pictures. I asked him where he got it. It is the old glass candy counter from Reddy's grocery store. He told me he had bought it from Mr. Reddy. It still has the sliding glass doors.
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