Callaway High School - Lesprit Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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What could be more American than apple pie, Chevy, and baseball? Coach Hill Denson and the rest of the Callaway baseball club might not could tell you about pie and cars, but their stand- out 26-6 record should let you know about the baseball part. Besides the fantastic record, the Chargers also won the first Jackson In- vitational Baseball tourna- ment Baseball tournament and were runners-up in the power- ful Big Eight. The Big Orange brought the lumber this year with a team batting average of .278 and five players - Ronald Taylor (.379), Joe Rucker (.337), Rick Cox (.323), Roy Coleman (.317), and Kent Ball (.311) -went over the .300 mark. YOOOOOUUU ' RRRE OUT! FILLED WITH THE DESIRE TO WIN, Kent Ball slides in home against Murrah. FRONT ROW: Tom Cox, mgr.; Joe Rucker; Walt Dallas, Stacey Tommy Sacca; Danny McDill; Larry Taylor; Bennie Caldwell; Wall; Billy Simms; Ronald Taylor; Perry Cllburn; Roy Coleman; Rick Jose Smyley; Lee Shaw; Wayne Curtis Washington; Craig Crosland; Cox; Don Robinson; Ron Sills, Stover; Kent Ball; Russell Meyers; Cieo Armstrong; Jimmy McDougal, coach. Reggie Smith, mgr. SECOND ROW: mgr. BACK ROW: Hill Denson, Danny West, coach; Timmy Wilson; coach; Calvin Horhn; Bo Chastain; 72 Baseball