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Middletown Forum : Smith Park Ball Diamonds http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : Fun Pictures and Video : Smith Park Ball Diamonds Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:13:30 +0000 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:06:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4806 Middletown Forum http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Correct--soccer rules these... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35029&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35029 Author: spiderjohn
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Posted: Oct 12 2012 at 8:06pm

Correct--soccer rules these days.

Knothole and Pee Wee are endangered species.

They might still play Pee Wee @ Douglas

Doesn't matter--the leaders usually steal all of the $$ anyway

Vet--funny that u mention Wade E

It will go when the old school adjacent is demoed

They are too closely tied together with plumbing/heating

New gym at the current HS site(where the HSwill be renovated)

New freshman school 2 b built on the Verity site probably?

]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:06:02 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35029&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35029 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Heard that they are moving... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35028&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35028 Author: LMAO
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Posted: Oct 12 2012 at 7:40pm

Heard that they are moving basball to Lefferson Park.Which if its true,I bet the school is upset.Thought they was going to build New High School there?This town is so back asswards.

]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:40:42 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35028&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35028 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Or perhaps they are being relocated... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35019&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35019 Author: swohio75
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Posted: Oct 12 2012 at 3:26pm

Or perhaps they are being relocated to another park in town? ]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:26:41 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35019&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35019 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : There aren't enough businesses... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35018&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35018 Author: acclaro
Subject: 4806
Posted: Oct 12 2012 at 3:22pm

There aren't enough businesses remaining in Middeletown to sponsor a Little League roster of teams. That's the pathetic state of the city. ]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:22:14 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35018&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35018 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : 409 wrote: Found out today... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35017&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35017 Author: VietVet
Subject: 4806
Posted: Oct 12 2012 at 2:42pm

409 wrote:

Found out today the ball diamonds are history.

Neal Excavating is doing the work.

I was told this area will be used for soccer fields.

And so it is. Middletown has lost it's interest in the nation's past time. Another sad event as what was once popular goes by the wayside. First the old schools, then the old swimming hole and now the ball diamonds. Now, nothing to look at but open tracks of land, offering little interest.

What's next? The Wade E. Miller Gym? The Jug? The town is slowly losing it's identity and character and substituting it for an empty, boring personality. Sad.]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:42:01 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35017&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35017 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Found out today the ball... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35010&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35010 Author: 409
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Posted: Oct 11 2012 at 4:07pm

Found out today the ball diamonds are history.

Neal Excavating is doing the work.

I was told this area will be used for soccer fields.

]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:07:45 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35010&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35010 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Stanky wrote:409, are you... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35008&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35008 Author: 409
Subject: 4806
Posted: Oct 10 2012 at 10:37pm

Stanky wrote:

409, are you sure about this? Someone mentioned they might be getting rid of the diamonds altogether.

Stanky...I would agree you are probably correct. Today they were spreading topsoil in the diamond areas. I was guessing at the fences & backstops.

This brings up another point. Parking for the Ohio Challenge was moved from this area to the airport because of complaints of diamond damage from the league using the diamonds in the past.

]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:37:42 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35008&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35008 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Vet,Great memories of the... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35007&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35007 Author: Mike_Presta
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Posted: Oct 10 2012 at 10:10pm

Vet,

Great memories of the ol' Knothole days!

I played on the same team as Mike Phillips one year...I was the catcher and he, of course, was the pitcher. Other noted Knothole hurlers that I caught over the many years that I played: Butch Donisi (another noted "fireballer"), Rick Meyer, Jim Ousley, and Bret Whisman. (I apologize to the ones that my old brain cannot recall.) I even remember Mike Romans (husband of juvenile court Judge Kathy Romans), usually an infielder I think, coming in as a relief pitcher occasionally on one of my teams.

Great days, great times, and great memories of playin' ball.

]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:10:39 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35007&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35007 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : 409, are you sure about this?... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35006&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35006 Author: Stanky
Subject: 4806
Posted: Oct 10 2012 at 9:26pm

409, are you sure about this? Someone mentioned they might be getting rid of the diamonds altogether.]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:26:50 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35006&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35006 Smith Park Ball Diamonds : Ahh Smith Park. Diamond #5 just... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35005&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35005 Author: VietVet
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Posted: Oct 10 2012 at 8:46pm

Ahh Smith Park. Diamond #5 just to the left of the entrance off Tytus Ave. 1956. Barry Cohen, our starting pitcher, brother(?) of THE MMF'er Ken Cohen, throws ball overhand and as he gets more tired as the innings go by, let's the ball go higher over his head.......right over the backstop and in the hydraulic canal running behind the backstop.

Diamond #4 down by the main office......Olgesby-Barnitz Bank- 17 and 0 on the season. Can't be beat. Have all the talent. Until that fatal day in 1956 when Coach Mike Tykach's team, Lions Club, with son Mike Tykach playing shortstop and some other unknown kids including me,pin a 3 to 2 loss on Barnitz Bank, shocking all. As the games finished up on the other diamonds, word got around and diamond 4 became packed in the late innings as everyone wanted someone to beat Barnitz. Little old middle of the pack Lions Club did it that day.......

Jimmy Thompson (Shotgun) playing shortstop and a talent then. Teddy Frisch, a good little catcher back then. Mike Phillips, twice as big as any kid on the diamonds, pitching for 77 Taxi, scaring the crap out of all us kids who faced him at home plate. The boy threw hard.....and sometimes wild and when you got hit, it stayed sore for weeks.

Great fun. ]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:46:40 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4806&PID=35005&title=smith-park-ball-diamonds#35005