East Side Little League Part 1: "Major League Memories"

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10/29/22 • 40 min

From the late late 1950’s to the early 1990’s, there was a small two field little league league park on McKinley Ave in South Bend, IN. Many kids on our side of town had a blast playing there, but the space was simply too small, with no room for expansion, so the original East Side Little League closed its doors and relocated. Therefore, all we have left are the fond memories that will be etched in our minds the rest of our lives.

The majority of this episode is simply a collection of our memories about East Side Little League and while listening, you’ll get a feel for how much this place meant to us. Then at the end of the episode, my parents and I take it WAY back, back to the beginning.

Even though the stories we share are from 30 plus years ago, you can tell from the excitement in our voices that East Side Little League was special place.

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Even though the stories we share are from 30 plus years ago, you can tell from the excitement in our voices that East Side Little League was special place.

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Tell a friend who you think will enjoy it!

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"Fire, Fire, Fire!" A 4th of July BLAST from the Past (originally aired July 2021)

There once were four dumb asses,

Ignorant to heated, pressurized gasses.

Can in the fire!

Situation dire!

They didn't even wear safety glasses!

A 4TH OF JULY BLAST FROM THE PAST (originally aired July 2021)

If you would have taken a stroll through our neighborhood, Sunnymede, in the early to mid 1990’s, you might have seen random firecrackers flying through the air, bottle rockets being used as projectiles, sporadic booms at odd hours, and the smell of slowly extinguishing campfires in the morning... except this was a neighborhood, not a campsite. In this episode, we share stories that are all based around fire, explosions, bottle rocket wars, and fireworks shows that lit up the night sky over Sunnymede and made many in South Bend mistake Wall St for the Las Vegas strip. Beavis and Butthead were watching an episode of us, when Butthead chuckled as Beavis chanted, “Fire, Fire, Fire”

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Be sure to try Beef O' Brady's on St. Rd. 23 in Granger, IN!

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Next Episode

East Side Little League Part 2: "Legends"

In the 1980’s, things were a bit different. Coaches had sweet mustaches and they didn’t hesitate to pitch batting practice shirtless with a cigarette hanging from their mouth. And there was NO question about a team gathering after a game at a local restaurant like Barnaby’s and as us players knocked back our pizza and Cokes, our coaches enjoyed the fruits of their labor as they guzzled ice cold Budweiser... sometimes straight from the pitcher.

In the last episode, you heard a few reasons why the original East Side Little League on McKinley Ave in South Bend, IN meant so much to us. In this episode, we share a few stories about some East Side Little League legends.

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