1982 Elmvale Angels Softball Team Anecdotes

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Anecdotes/Reminiscences

     ♦  Joan Player, Manager and President of the team, had an interesting habit of stating the obvious after it happened by exclaiming, ‘I was
          just about to say that’.  To which Brownie would always reply, ‘Then why the hell didn’t you’!

     ♦  Team players liked the good cop/bad cop dynamic of coaching duo Tom McLellan and John Brown.  Tom was fair and Brownie was
          fiery.  Umps knew they were in trouble or at least Brownie knew he was in trouble when the dirt got kicked and the ball cap got turned sideways for an ‘in their face’ conversation.

Brownie-isms

    ♦  ‘Show me someone who doesn’t mind sitting on the bench and I’ll show you someone who doesn’t really want to be there’

     ♦   When running the bases, Brownie would often say, ‘I don’t mind you carrying a piano on your back, just don’t stop to play it’

     ♦  ‘Who wants the ball’ was a saying Brownie would say when we were on the field in a tough defensive situation. 

     ♦  ‘Look, Throw’, also yelled at specific players. 

 

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