College of San Mateo - Campus Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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a Y Ace chucker Reg Christmas rears back to throw his “fast one’’ down the Bud Hamilton, Bulldog catcher, sprints away from home plate after banging middle. out a bingo against Modesto. FOUR VETERANS WERE BACK SCORES SCORES Stanford Braves Oakland JC E. Contra Costa JC Oakland JC UC Cinnamon Bears Treasure Island E. Contra Costa JC Stanford Braves Modesto JC Sacramento JC Modesto JC Sacramento JC Alameda NAS Santa Clara Frosh Moffett Field NAS UC Cinnamon Bears Parks AFB Santa Rosa JC Santa Rosa JC 17 Big Eight Conference Four veterans reported for the ’S7 baseball season. Left to right, they are Rich Giusti, If; Bob Freschi, 2b; Ron Krieger, p; and Ernie Kar- watt, ss.

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FIRST ROW, left to right: Bud Hamilton, Reg Christmas, LeRoy Lindstrom, Ray Wagner, Bob Scott, Larry Blanchard, Greg Jimenez. and Daryl Stuart. SECOND ROW: Clint Argus, manager; Jack Cocchi, Roger Locke, Al Figone, Bob Freschi, Ron Krieger, Rich Guisti, Gene Miramon, Howard Harrington, and John Madden. NOT PICTURED: Ernie Karwatt, Bill Barraclough. BASEBALL When you see little spheroids of white horsehide flying through the air with the greatest of ease, you know it’s time for baseball, and the outlook for Coach Jesse Freitas’ 1957 championship hopes were good, considering the potentiality of four vets back in uniform. The men were a game bunch of lads, and after dropping the opener to the Stanford Braves, 2-0, in a season delayed by two weeks of solid rain, they came back to set up a five-game winning streak and held a 7-6 mark by the first week of April. East Contra Costa defeated the Bulldogs in the next game, 7-5, before the peninsula nine picked up the first victory with a 6-5 decision over the UC Cinnamon Bears. The next Saturday gave the SM club a split in the BEC opening day twin bill, Modesto taking the first, 6-2, the Bulldogs winning the nightcap, 6-4. Then came wins over Alameda Naval Air Station, 13-1, Moffett Field NAS, 9-7, Parks Air Force Base, 7-2, and the first game of a league doubleheader with Oakland’s Thunderbirds, 6-1. The East Bay school won the second, 10-9. As the yearbook prepared to close up shop, the CSM nine had posted a victory over Treasure Island’s Marines, 7-5, and dropped a return match to Stanford’s Braves, 10-4, with a trip to Sacra- mento forthcoming and eight other BEC games remaining. Coach Jesse Freitas poses with his son, little Jesse, and ace pitchers Reg Christmas and Ron Krieger.

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NUMBER 1 MAN—Bill West With four returning veterans pacing a defending state champion aggregation, Coach Ray Balsley’s CSM Bulldog divot-diggers were undefeated as the Campus closed its pages. The Mateans led the Big Eight Conference with 5-0 and matches with Oakland and CCSF left to go, and had captured ten straight in the season. Their chances of coming home with the conference, Northern California, and state tournaments were excellent. NUMBER 2 MAN—Pat Larkin SCORES 12 Sacramento 3 15 Stockton 0 11y% Modesto 1% 12% Santa Rosa 2'%4 8 WiGGe 7 Big Eight Conference FRONT ROW, left to right: Van Gerszewski, Bill West, Pat Larkin, and Darryl! Mohr. SECOND ROW: Lloyd Lortz, Don Wolff, Dennis Cas- sels, George Walker, and Coach Ray Balsley.