SPY’s Community Newsletter #218
(9/23/22)
Sign Project Completed
We are pleased to announce that the “Sunfield Welcomes You” sign renovation project is now completed. The revamping and partial reconstruction of the sign turned out to be a major undertaking.
We would like to thank the following fine community minded businesses and individuals for providing the financial support necessary to get the work done. Thank You:
Rebecca Calabro and Mapes Furniture Company
Rosie Best and Best Tax Service
John & Sandra Fisher
David Rosier and Rosier Funeral Home
Luke Brogger and Quality Hardwoods
Art & Eunice Boulis
Sunfield Area SPY’s
Thank-You Dime Pitch Booth Helpers!
The Chairman of the Sunfield Area Sponsors of Programs for Youth (the SPY’s) popular Dime Pitch Booth fund-raiser that is run during the Farmer’s Picnic, is Zeke Cappon. This was Zeke’s first crack at running the project and he did a fantastic job! Even though the rain hit us hard during the traditionally peak of action, (Saturday night just before the fireworks), the Dime Pitch Booth kept going.
Zeke would like to send out his heartfelt thanks to the various crews that showed up to pitch in and help this go smoothly. He had a set-up crew on Thursday---the operations crews on Friday and Saturday---and the tear-down and pack away crew on Sunday. It took a lot of dedicated volunteers to get the job done---and here they are:
Oren Best
Duane Miller
Wayne Simmons
Gabriel Bowen
Dariel Bowen
Renee Strimback
Lance Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge
John Fisher
Sandra Fisher
Olivia Fisher
Bella Ieremias
Jim Peabody
Derek Desgranges
Jeff Gibbs
Casey Shettler
Cynthia Shettler
Gabe Cappon
Sam Coan
Payton Coan
Alana Cappon
Lucia Rubio Valez
Matt Meyers
Justina Hastings
Seth DeMott
Courtney Turner
Marissa, Averie
Maylee Steward
Keanan Miller
Eric Vansickle
ALL proceeds from the Dime Pitch Booth go towards funding the various youth and community programs and projects the SPY’s underwrite. Thank you again volunteers!
Parting Comments
• Deep Thought of the Week: The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
• Notable Quote: "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."-----HENRY DAVID THOREAU
• That’s Puny Department: What do you call an everyday potato?--------------------(A Commontater)
• Did You Know Section: Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. Her next-door neighbor, Dazzy Vance, taught her to pitch and showed her his "drop ball", a type of breaking ball. (Later, Vance would pitch in the major leagues and eventually be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame)
The New York Yankees and the Chattanooga Lookouts (a Class AA minor league team that Jackie Mitchell played for) were scheduled to play an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 1, 1931. Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, was brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single. The first batter she faced was Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell's fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said: "I don't know what's going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day."
Next up was the “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history. A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, in a snit of embarrassment for the game, voided her contract with the Lookouts and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous." Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to professional contracts on June 21, 1952. The ban lasted until 1992.
Notices
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SPY newsletters---etc.---just go to the SPY website at www.sunfieldareaspys.com.
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