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re: Kids don't stay overnight for Baseball Camp anymore?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 4:47 pm to Clyde Tipton
Posted on 6/27/25 at 4:47 pm to Clyde Tipton
I was looking into the camp for my boy who is 6, hasn’t played on a team but he’s interested in the sport.
This thread gives me hope for the future of boyhood, I hope my kids get the opportunities we had to frick around in our youth.
This thread gives me hope for the future of boyhood, I hope my kids get the opportunities we had to frick around in our youth.
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Posted on 6/27/25 at 4:51 pm to Clyde Tipton
I had some fun times at that camp in the early 2000s. This isnt one of them, I was there when Wally passed, remember walking in and everybody had the old box lined with flowers outside.
We stayed at the hotel behind the gold club, remember a bunch of the players taking their money and heading out one night. Boys came to camp the next day drunk off their arse.
We stayed at the hotel behind the gold club, remember a bunch of the players taking their money and heading out one night. Boys came to camp the next day drunk off their arse.
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 6/27/25 at 4:58 pm to Clyde Tipton
Went in 01, 02, and 04. They put us up in I wanna say either the Hampton or Holiday inn on College and we would take buses to another hotel for breakfast every morning.
McDonald’s Cheeseburgers or brown bag sandwiches for lunch everyday, room snacks and Domino’s for supper. We were living.
Met some good guys down there and struck up a camaraderie with Lane Mestepey. Good times.
McDonald’s Cheeseburgers or brown bag sandwiches for lunch everyday, room snacks and Domino’s for supper. We were living.
Met some good guys down there and struck up a camaraderie with Lane Mestepey. Good times.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 5:12 pm to Corporal Beavis
Yeah I stayed at hill denson camp at usm. First times I had papa John’s.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 5:21 pm to iwantacooler
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Boots Garland on running
This guy! Ha. What a riot he was. I remember him being quite crusty and salty, but cool at the same time. He was a hell of a motivator because you would be scared of him.
I remember that he would often do the talk to the group in the mornings before we got after it. I remember him saying stuff like: “The National Pastime isn’t baseball… it’s transferral blame!! Everybody blaming everybody else for their own shortcomings “. Etc. lol. I was a kid, but I remember him pretty clearly.
Once, he had us on a running session where he explained how he wanted us to get into running form getting out of the batter’s box, and how he wanted us to run down to first base. So then he proceeds to watch us as we would take turns rubbing one by one. He’d bark orders, etc. One guy in our group did in fact have a little awkward running form. When this kid ran by him, Boots yells: “Who the hell shot this guy?!” lol
The Skip Bertman camp was the GOAT camp for sure!
This post was edited on 6/27/25 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 6/27/25 at 5:23 pm to WaterLink
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I went to Skip's camp in the late 90s, like 98 or 99 or so and we went home every day. But we lived 20 minutes away so maybe they had some accommodations for the kids that came from further away, idk.
I went from the mid 90s through like 2001. They still had a boarding option when I last went
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:07 pm to Clyde Tipton
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First year my roommate showed me that if you unplug the TV box in the Hilton and plugged it back in the porn channels were no longer blocked and somehow didn't charge to your room.
Very cool trick. I will try it soon.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:15 pm to Clyde Tipton
Didn't do baseball, but football camp in '85 you was dropped off and picked up when camp was over.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:34 pm to iwantacooler
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I remember Beetle Bailey on hitting,
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ragball in some agriculture coliseum
Yep. I think we played ragball in Cow Palace when it would rain.
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and of course taking the yearly picture with Skip.
Mine hang behind my bar in my house…
Any of y’all in this pic?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:44 pm to DocRock
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Boots Garland on running
This guy! Ha. What a riot he was.
Dude actually helped me run faster.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:47 pm to Clyde Tipton
I stayed at the Hilton back in the 90’s I remember the whole free porno too! Somebody was acting a fool on our floor Skip came down the hall screaming scared us all half to death. Won the championship on year our coach which was a player took us to hooters. Great times went 95-96 I believe or 96-97. Been a minute.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:56 pm to Dizz
LOL
Posted on 6/27/25 at 7:57 pm to LSU316
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Too much risk and liability involved
No more than ever but parents are pu$$ies these days. People say kids today have changed. They are wrong, kids haven’t, parents have.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:07 pm to Clyde Tipton
I attended several years in the mid 80s. I still have that picture of me and Skip Bertman. We definitely spent the night. It was somewhere on campus, but I don’t remember where.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:18 pm to Clyde Tipton
I went in 2000 and we stayed at the Crowne Plaza I think. Remember riding the buses and everyone singing Get Your Roll On non radio version acapella.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:21 pm to Clyde Tipton
Too much liability these days
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:34 pm to DocRock
I'm pretty sure it was Boots but maybe someone else...
"I might have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night..."
I feel like he said that multiple times a day.
"I might have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night..."
I feel like he said that multiple times a day.
Posted on 6/27/25 at 11:48 pm to tigerskin
That’s a great story
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:30 am to Clyde Tipton
Maybe that’s a good thing.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:51 am to paulb52
Mid 80's and stayed in the stadium dorms. It was a blast.
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