Ken Mont Camp for Boys - Golden Days Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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JEFF GINZBURG and LARRY KLITZMAN were two bright spots for the Blues. Both boys should -be top baseballers for future Ken-Mont teams. The Blues lost more one run games than any other club inthe league. . The highlight of the National League season was GARY SINGER'S perfect game.,A Against the Maroons, GARY gave up no hits, no runs, no base on balls and faced the minimum-number of 21 men in a seven inning ball game! . , J- American League , i'A' I V A The American League season featured the first playoff game inlthe league's history. The Spades and Cubs finished the regular 'season in a tie and the Spades, took the title by a score of 3-2 in the playoff game. ' A The league play sparkled with many individual performances. The champion Spades were led by the pitching of Long JOHN SHEVELL. JOHN hung up a record of 5-0 that would be to-ugh to improve on! He went on to receive the'league's Most Valuable Player award. LOREN KLEINMAN was the teamis slugger and SCOTT WEBER held the infield together with his sparkling play at shortstop ala Phil Rizzuto. - BOB MANDEL'S fin-e pitching brought 'the Cubs to. a season end tie with the Spades only to -lose out in the playoffs. BOB MENDELSON,.. in the family tradition, was a hardnosed catcher and fine hitter. I ' ' Spearheaded by ALAN ABRAMSON and the clutch hitting of PETE WOLPERT, the Cards made a real run for the roses, but lost out in the last week. Young RICH WOOD looked like a promising hitter for the future. The Mets made a. fine effort but unfortunately, did not win the big games. 'Led by BRAD SINGER, one of the famous SINGER brothers, and by JAY KRAMER, they were every ball game they played until the final out. -DAVID GODNICK'S pitching and hitting led the Bucs. The team always played gO0Cl ball, but losing the close ones was their downfall. A high- light of theseason was the emergence of BRYAN BLOOM, only a young Sparrow as one of the leagues' best hitters. BRYAN has a fine future on Ken-Mont's inter-camp teams! The Aces were beset by misfortune all season long. MIKE ROSEN pitched his heart out on the mound. SCOTT ZUCKERMAN and RICHY WEIL gave MIKE Hne support in the field but other players that we counted on did not play up to their level of ability. We had a fine year in the American League race. Good coaching, hard play, real effort and fine sportsmanship all combined to make the seaon worthwhile. Many line players will move up to the National League next year, while many boys have another year of American League eligibility after a solid year of experience. Minor League The Minor League, composed of the Sp-arrows and Bluejays, had another -thrill packed season with the Tigers and Panthers finishing the schedule with identical 6-3 records. The Tigers seemed to have the championship wrapped up with a -two 'game lead? ands, only three games to play. But a late Panther surge and a Tiger slump caused the two teams to be deadlocked by the seaon's end. . The Panthershad a powerful hitting attack with LORNE GODNICK and JEFF DAVIDSON set- ting the pace. The Panther defense was bolstered by slick fielding ,of NEIL SKOLNIK, STEVE FASS and JERRY ROSEN. The momentum which car- ried -the Panthers into a tie for the league lead made the Panthers a slight favorite over the Tigers in the playoff game. However, the Tigers, led by ERIC SILVERMAN, JEFF FOSTER, DAVID ALBIN and PETER FASS fthe leagues most improved playerj, were not about to hand the Panthers the A , . AMERICAN LEAGUE I Spades. KL. fo RJ Top: Jim Green Asher Platt 2nd Row- RICKY OBLETZ KEITH ROSENFE ' ' ' 1 LD, JOHN SH ' . ING, ROBERT MENDELSON, 3rd Row: ERIC SILVERMAN, STEVE SCHWARTZ, LOREN KLEINMAN HCEJIIVIIIELINI-AJTNY ASTMANN' BRAD GER HERMAN, SCO-I-T WEBER. , HEL, LENNY SALTZ, EDDY CGVCIS- fl- T0 RJ Top:'John'Venn Asher Platt 2nd Row- RICHARD COHEN f ' - , MARC LEHRER, . WOLPERT, RICHARD WUODS, JEFF DANIELS, I-ENNIE RUSSELL, JON SCHOTTLAND, ALAN PETER Bucs CL. to RJ Top: Mike Alford, Asher Platt. 2ncl Row: PETER ENGEL, RICK EAGLE DREW HOLDER MIKE REINERT DAVID MILLER B I ' I , . offom MATTY NEWMAN, BRYAN Bloom, PAUL KRAMER, DAVID GODNICK. STEVE HA . ' ga, V -. -c I ' I - . , - 2 L --Rr vp- - UPI, JOHN KATZ, DANNY COHEN. A xl f I .4 ',,',. . f.-- -Q A.. ,- -. .- A, I-'- . , '

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