Regarding the item in a recent Korner about the Rippey baseball diamond renovation, Allan Dannatt, BHS-66 wrote, "back in 1968 or 69, Jack Teagarden, BHS-67, Danny McDevitt, BHS-66, and I played for the Rippey Demons semi-pro team. The lighting was terrible and the field was not in good shape but it was a lot of fun. McDevitt threw the only no-hitter in the Central Iowa Semi Pro League that summer."
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It must be in the genes........lots of hard work too I'm sure.
Back in 1984, Toreador Bill Courter won the Class 1-A state singles tennis title after a third-place finish the year before. Moving ahead almost 40 years, his son, Hugh Courter, was a member of the Class 1-A state championship double teams this spring. In fact, his Cedar Rapids Xavier team made a mockery of the Class 1-A division. Their top singles player, Brady Horstmann, won that title, Courter and Declan Coe took the doubles crown and the Xavier team won that championship. Courter, of course, was a senior member of the team. He's also a baseball relief pitcher and earned a victory in relief, 12-4, over Solon as the latter part of the tennis season was being overlapped by the start of baseball. A pretty talented young man.
P.S. Boone's Sally and the late Lloyd Courter were Bill's parents and young Hugh's grandparents. Also, Lloyd's dad was also Hugh Courter, the proprietor of the Bide-A-Wee pool hall. Remember?
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The old days of Madrid semi-pro baseball came up in conversation recently. Yes, Madrid was quite the successful baseball town in the 40's, 50's period. I remember their lineup featured some great Italian players......Joe Radosovich, Willy Galetich, Londie Ceretti, Emil Bozich and others. Radosovich was a tough southpaw pitcher and Galetich, a catcher, actually signed a major league contract but wartime service interrupted his chances of furthering his baseball career. I can't remember if Willy's brother,Lou Galetich, played baseball but he coached a 1953 Clinton St. Mary's basketball team to a state championship. Later, he served as Madrid mayor for several terms.
As a youngster, I was their batboy as three of my uncles played for Boone teams so I remember lots of Madrid/Boone games. They were highly-spirited to say the least. At that time, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Odd Fellows Lodge had good semi-pro teams. Gib Thompson was the Odd Fellows star pitcher and I remember one year the VFW paid a pitcher, Dick Hein, to play for them. He had been a first team Big Ten all-conference pitcher. Semi-pro baseball was serious stuff in those days.
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Prior to old Jimmy Archer Field at 10th and Tama, there was a great well-lighted adult baseball park on that same site where those Boone semi-pro teams often played. The New York Yankees had a terrific catcher in those days, Mickey Owen. Unfortunately, he made a major error to allow the winning run to score against his Yankees in the deciding game of the 1941 World Series. When his major league career ended, Owen did some barnstorming all over the country. I remember he made an appearance, at a cost of course, at one of the Boone team's games. I remember interviewing him and, in fact, somewhere I think I still have a nice picture of he and I taken during that interview.
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QUICK NOTES: (1) The late Connie Younger was a well known Boone area resident. He worked at Iowa State as a flight instructor and pilot from 1976-96 and in 1990, launched CY Aviation Inc. and began managing the Boone Municipal Airport, which he continued to do for 26 years. Younger will be inducted posthumously into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame in Greenfield, August 27, in conjunction with a fly-in. (2) In her first such competition ever, Stefanie Davis-Muller of Boone recently won the all-around women's physique award at the National Physique Committee Iowa State Championships. (3) Its official......Ankeny has now passed West Des Moines as the metro's biggest suburb with a population of 70,287 to WDM's 69,792. (4) They refuse to give in. After being slowed by the pandemic, the committee has revigorated its efforts and there will be another Iowa By the Sea Picnic......July 23. All Iowans are invited to gather at the site of the battleship Iowa in southern California on that date for the 121st edition of that event.
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Finally, Gary Knox, United Community HS-58, after reading the last Korner edition about the passage of time and change has become a poet. He wrote, "the eyesight is failing; my steps are slower; many people I knew...gone; but my memories remain; inside me, I'm still the same; a proud '58 UC grad; and every morning at six, turn to Mo's special blog; and enjoy "just remembering"; the way it once was in a place called home and named Boone." Gary says, "I'm a Boone County farm kid at heart and I was an Iowa teacher for 49 years."
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BOONE CONNECTED/AREA DEATHS
Madilyn Mary Stitz Busch, 91, Boone/Eastern Star. Born in Minnesota. Paton HS-49. Married George Busch in 1950 in Jefferson. The couple farmed south of Beaver for 14 years before moving to Boone in 1965. Madilyn worked at Equitable Life Insurance, 1949-50, and at the Beaver Steak House as a waitress from 1961-65. But, she was a fulltime farm partner while raising five children. She enjoyed playing bridge and bowling and was active in the Sacred Heart Church. Survivors include a daughter, Lori Burma, of Boone, four sons, three of them, Tracy, Joe and Marty, of Boone and a step-brother. Services in Boone.
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