The Ball in the Air: a Golfing Adventure by Michael Bamberger

Author:Michael Bamberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 2023-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Dave Guard liked the song so much that he wrote down its lyrics. A few years later, the Kingston Trio, a group Guard founded with two friends, recorded it. They tried to find the name of the original composer of “Scotch and Soda” but never could.

Betty and Charley had another, younger daughter named Carol. She was a natural athlete, too, and studied physical education at UCLA. Later, she lived in Africa with her husband, a doctor and Peace Corps supervisor. Betty and Charley’s older son, Charles Jr., was tall and rangy, and he swam at the University of California, Berkeley. He later became a writer, social worker, and sculptor who lived in Greece and New York City, among other places. He was as liberal as his father was not. The youngest of the four Seaver children, Tommy, was a promising pitcher, first at Fresno High, later at Fresno City College, and then, briefly, at the University of Southern California.

While Tommy was at USC, there was a lot of back-and-forth between the Seaver family and the office of the commissioner of Major League Baseball over Tommy’s amateur status. There were stories about it in The Fresno Bee. People were talking about it all over town. But Tommy’s path from USC to the New York Mets barely made a dent in Charley’s golf-course conversation, even after the Miracle Mets won the 1969 World Series.

Tom Seaver won the Cy Young Award in 1969, ’73, and ’75 as a dominating righthander for the Mets. In the Reeves home, when Game of the Week featured the Mets, the TV was on. Sam was part of Charley Seaver’s life in those years. As a father of four himself, Sam noted how Charley treated his four children equally. When they were home, they all picked backyard oranges, lemons, and pomegranates. They were grounded. Charley Seaver had grown up in a Jazz Age palace in Los Angeles with a backyard three-hole golf course, but things had changed. In Fresno, a full house meant six Seavers at home, two in each bedroom. All that left an impression on Sam, too.

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