Played a few pickup ballgames at Edison back in the early-mid 70s. I played on a parks and rec softball team one summer, must have been 69 or 70. We were from Cook Park [[Fenkell between St Marys and Prevost), I remember playing games at Edison, Burns Elementary [[a block or two east of Montgomery Wards) and Dossin. To be honest, I can't remember if it was a league, or just occasional games between kids from the neighborhood parks/schools, organized by the parks and rec folks. One thing I do remember for sure - playing on lots of gravel fields in those games. I sprained my ankle at Edison on their gravel field [[the one right next to the school) trying to run out a grounder while playing a pickup game when I was 14 or 15. Stepped the wrong way on one of those #$%! little rocks. There wasn't a whole lot of sliding going on in those games.
Went to kindergarten at Edison in 65-66 - St. Marys didn't have kindergarten classes back in those days. Had Mrs. Wasserman in the morning. I remember walking by the St. Marys bakery every morning and dying to go in there and get me a lunchstick.
Also, in 7th grade St. Marys had an intramural flag football league, and some of our games were over at Edison when they weren't at Cook Park. Great memories!
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