Anna Football-Loramie Baseball - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories

Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50’s & 60’s

Anna Football - Loramie Baseball

Congrats to the Anna Rockets for their state championship in football, the first in county history. But what might you ask has that to do with Loramie baseball. Well, let me connect the dots. I first noticed a twitter posting by Loramie Baseball that got my attention, because Doug, a high school classmate of mine, was mentioned in the posting. Turns out Loramie played baseball in 1963 during our freshman year in high school against Bob Bixler, the grandfather of Anna’s star QB, Bart Bixler (#4 holding the trophy). Doug got a double and drove in 2 runs batting against pitcher Bixler during a district championship game. He played for Riverside HS. Another classmate, Frank, was on that team as well. Doug, Frank and I got together in Florida earlier this year to reminisce about old times as shown in this photo.

R-L: Doug, Frank, Me

Doug said he could point out the exact spot where the ball hit the fence at Hardman Field in Piqua where that 1963 District Championship was played. He also claimed "Bixler could throw a fastball through a shower and it wouldn’t get wet"! Doug had witnessed Bixler be entered in Riverside HS Hall of Fame during a football game this fall that one of his grandkids played in.

Here’s the full twitter article from Loramie Baseball:

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