Beautiful Day at the Ballpark

[Bobby Burton]

What a gorgeous day for a baseball game.

 

[Bobby Burton]

For those unaware, Keith Moreland is a good dude.

[marathon]

5 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

For those unaware, Keith Moreland is a good dude.

It’s hard to believe that Moreland was a freshman in 1972…same as me. I believe he played on the freshman football team at UT in 1972 and then baseball in the spring of 1973. I scheduled my spring classes around baseball games when they were played at the old Clark Field. Besides Moreland, pitchers Jim Gideon, Richard Wortham and Martin Flores I remember on the 1973 team. 

The 1973 and 1974 teams were damn good and made the College World Series. Disch-Falk field opened in 1975 and the Moreland led Texas team won the College World Series.

I loved old Clark Field just north of the football stadium (I believe the performing arts building is there now.. It had a limestone wall in the outfield. There was a hill/ramp in CF for outfielders to retrieve baseballs that stayed up there. It was known as Billy Goat Hill.

I’ve always been a Moreland fan and he is a great baseball announcer.