Wednesday, October 18, 2017

I Worked for Hyrum City as a Youth

It started with my older brother, Weldon, and then passed to me.  We worked with the youth sports in Hyrum for many years.  We were also over seen by a city councilman, first Clair Lundberg and then Bruce Darley.  This started with baseball, little league age at first, and then later expanding to pony age.  We had some pretty good teams.  We would organize a local league each summer, and then select from that league an all star team to take to tournaments at the end of the year.  We were not part of any official league in those days, but would use the Little League rule book.  However, sometimes there were other rules put upon us, like not stealing home unless played upon. 
We actually were paid for our efforts, not much, but something to make it worth while.
Eventually my brother expanded into football.  In this we were not part of any league again, but would schedule practice games with other teams.  One year we went to Preston to play, and another to North Ogden.  We also played teams locally, Logan and Smithfield; where they kids had a regular league.  Kids had to purchase their own guards, so sometimes were not very well protected.  What you buy at the store is sort of crap.  However all had helmets.  We had some fun times.
Eventually we also included basketball.  We organized some pretty nice leagues, and one year had a local tournament.  We also participated in Bantam tournaments.  I found a letter from Bruce Darley. 

We always gathered the uniforms, but the bumper stickers were forced upon us.  I think we got them back, but not sure how many we actually sold.  We must have sole a few because eventually we did get a pitching machine.

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  1. Steve Yeates I remember going to bear lake and malad for football also.

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