saul: topeka

[Pete]

used to play travelling baseball at dornwood park that was by highland park and i can't imagine a worse place in the entire world. very sad place indeed over there.

Me too.  Very sad to leave a game, on your way to go get ice cream on the other side of town and witness that hell hole....HPHS is literally 2 blocks from that.

team name???

we used to play...pal bears, strikers, dr pepper demons. crap, some good team that i can't think of now.

also, dan jacobs once hit a baseball 400 ft off of me in 8th grade. luckily the fence was 410 (omaha firecracker tourney). that guy had to have been a 17 yr old eighth grader.

I did a stint on the Pal Bears....mostly Seaman folk on that team.   Majority of them went to my grade school.  I wasn't very interested in playing (sitting the bench) that many games, so I later played YMCA league ball out there. 


...and ya, scaba was way better.  One of my BFF's at the time was on the Pistols.  He's RIP now though.   

[Rick Daris]

used to play travelling baseball at dornwood park that was by highland park and i can't imagine a worse place in the entire world. very sad place indeed over there.

Me too.  Very sad to leave a game, on your way to go get ice cream on the other side of town and witness that hell hole....HPHS is literally 2 blocks from that.

team name???

we used to play...pal bears, strikers, dr pepper demons. crap, some good team that i can't think of now.

also, dan jacobs once hit a baseball 400 ft off of me in 8th grade. luckily the fence was 410 (omaha firecracker tourney). that guy had to have been a 17 yr old eighth grader.

I did a stint on the Pal Bears....mostly Seaman folk on that team.   Majority of them went to my grade school.  I wasn't very interested in playing (sitting the bench) that many games, so I later played YMCA league ball out there. 


...and ya, scaba was way better.  One of my BFF's at the time was on the Pistols.  He's RIP now though.   

yeah, pistols were the other team i couldn't think of. i think my team played scaba league or something. we'd come from manhattan and play double headers twice a week against all these topeka teams out at dornwood.  pistols were really good though, we never beat them. pal bears were kinda lol. they had a couple of fat kids that could kinda play though, but still lol. can't remember the fats kids names. think they were lefties though.

i remember that there were trails behind dornwood where you could find used condoms, beer cans, used toilet paper, etc. only good thing about going there was the taco tico across the street.

[Pete]

used to play travelling baseball at dornwood park that was by highland park and i can't imagine a worse place in the entire world. very sad place indeed over there.

Me too.  Very sad to leave a game, on your way to go get ice cream on the other side of town and witness that hell hole....HPHS is literally 2 blocks from that.

team name???

we used to play...pal bears, strikers, dr pepper demons. crap, some good team that i can't think of now.

also, dan jacobs once hit a baseball 400 ft off of me in 8th grade. luckily the fence was 410 (omaha firecracker tourney). that guy had to have been a 17 yr old eighth grader.

I did a stint on the Pal Bears....mostly Seaman folk on that team.   Majority of them went to my grade school.  I wasn't very interested in playing (sitting the bench) that many games, so I later played YMCA league ball out there. 


...and ya, scaba was way better.  One of my BFF's at the time was on the Pistols.  He's RIP now though.   

yeah, pistols were the other team i couldn't think of. i think my team played scaba league or something. we'd come from manhattan and play double headers twice a week against all these topeka teams out at dornwood.  pistols were really good though, we never beat them. pal bears were kinda lol. they had a couple of fat kids that could kinda play though, but still lol. can't remember the fats kids names. think they were lefties though.

i remember that there were trails behind dornwood where you could find used condoms, beer cans, used toilet paper, etc. only good thing about going there was the taco tico across the street.

The fat kids were Kenny and Lance.  The former is probably dead, and the later is an evangelical minister (again, Seaman school district for you).  Ya, they were pretty dece for being fat kids.

The Pistols were from all over town.  Several kids from Topeka West and Heights though.  Heights had a ton of good baseball players in those days.   

[Rick Daris]

used to play travelling baseball at dornwood park that was by highland park and i can't imagine a worse place in the entire world. very sad place indeed over there.

Me too.  Very sad to leave a game, on your way to go get ice cream on the other side of town and witness that hell hole....HPHS is literally 2 blocks from that.

team name???

we used to play...pal bears, strikers, dr pepper demons. crap, some good team that i can't think of now.

also, dan jacobs once hit a baseball 400 ft off of me in 8th grade. luckily the fence was 410 (omaha firecracker tourney). that guy had to have been a 17 yr old eighth grader.

I did a stint on the Pal Bears....mostly Seaman folk on that team.   Majority of them went to my grade school.  I wasn't very interested in playing (sitting the bench) that many games, so I later played YMCA league ball out there.  


...and ya, scaba was way better.  One of my BFF's at the time was on the Pistols.  He's RIP now though.  

yeah, pistols were the other team i couldn't think of. i think my team played scaba league or something. we'd come from manhattan and play double headers twice a week against all these topeka teams out at dornwood.  pistols were really good though, we never beat them. pal bears were kinda lol. they had a couple of fat kids that could kinda play though, but still lol. can't remember the fats kids names. think they were lefties though.

i remember that there were trails behind dornwood where you could find used condoms, beer cans, used toilet paper, etc. only good thing about going there was the taco tico across the street.

The fat kids were Kenny and Lance.  The former is probably dead, and the later is an evangelical minister (again, Seaman school district for you).  Ya, they were pretty dece for being fat kids.

The Pistols were from all over town.  Several kids from Topeka West and Heights though.  Heights had a ton of good baseball players in those days.  

just remembered something... if you played on pal bears around eighth grade then i prob have a vhs cassette game tape w/ you on it. 

[fatty fat fat]

daris did you even visit the topeka schools? not sure if jv-wrestling gotcha outta mhs very much. 


 

[Saulbadguy]

eliminators.   

[Saulbadguy]

daris did you even visit the topeka schools? not sure if jv-wrestling gotcha outta mhs very much. 


 

I've been in literally every school, elementary, middle and high, within city limits of Topeka.  Been all the way on top of the belltower of T-High (and underground in the "catacombs), hi-park has some good "nooks and crannies" but West is kind of set up like a campus with different buildings.

[fatty fat fat]

daris did you even visit the topeka schools? not sure if jv-wrestling gotcha outta mhs very much. 


 

I've been in literally every school, elementary, middle and high, within city limits of Topeka.  Been all the way on top of the belltower of T-High (and underground in the "catacombs), hi-park has some good "nooks and crannies" but West is kind of set up like a campus with different buildings.

always loved walking through the actual school during meets. kind of similar to my airport thing.

[Rick Daris]

daris did you even visit the topeka schools? not sure if jv-wrestling gotcha outta mhs very much. 


 

 

lol at jv.

also, maybe you didn't read my post where i said we were perma-banned from topeka west and almost kicked out of topeka high. also got a hotel room at the hays city bball shootout and had an asst bball coach walk in on us drinking beers. he said "ooooooo kay then" turned around and walked out. also got pulled over by multiple policed cars just outside of topeka on the way to a fball game and frisked at gunpoint on the side of the road. i was pretty much an expert of away highschool sporting events. even snuck out of high school junior and senior year and drove to the state bball tourney in emporia when our team wasn't even playing in it. dare i say we were "elite" back then. "elite"? very.

[catzacker]

eliminators.   

god I hated them.  they had a big ass indian who I swore was like 10 years older than everyone playing short.  we beat them once.

[Pete]

eliminators.   

World Series team. My sister's former (psycho) bo was on that team.

[catzacker]

eliminators.   

World Series team. My sister's former (psycho) bo was on that team.

she never fracking told me this.  goddammit.

[LimestoneOutcropping]

eliminators.   

World Series team. My sister's former (psycho) bo was on that team.

weird dood.  Had crazy eyes.

[Trim]

http://cjonline.com/news/2009-07-07/teen_scores_perfect_on_tests

[Panjandrum]

saul, could the rate the topeka hs's in terms of eliteness?

Allow me...(I'm a native as well).  1 being the best, 6 being the worst.

1.  Topeka High, but only if you are in their honors programs...best in the state, seriously.  Prolly better than SM East and the BV's.  If you are a normal student, you are only slightly less likely to get car jacked than a Highland Park student.  Dean Smith's Alma Mater.  Place looks like a castle.

2.  Washburn Rural.  Exact clone of any of the BV schools.  

3.  Shawnee Heights.  If Seaman were a good school district, it would be like this.  No where even close to Rural...you could drive a freaking truck through the gap between 2 and 3 in this list.

4.  Haden.  Catholic, and smaller (usually 4A), but great tradition in sports and fan following.  Lots and lots of Mexican Americans.  Kinda funny...whole place is either Lilly white or Mexican (like from Mexico, not just Latin).  Again, Catholic though  

5.  Topeka West.  Sad what has become of this school.  15-20 years ago, this school was Rural.  Now it is just trying not to turn into an inner city school.

7 (tie).  Highland Park.  Rough, rough neighborhoods go to this school.  Horrible education and even worse sports.....'cept for MBB.  School is a true dump.  Frighteningly bad place.

7 (tie).  Seaman.  Might be one of the worst college preparatory schools in the state.   Zero school spirit, tons of evangelicals running around.  Strait up white trash. My Alma mater.  

If I could have picked a school to attend in Topeka, I would have gone to T-High for all of the reasons listed.

I went to Heights (#2).  I hate Washburn Rural.  I'd rank them fourth behind Hayden, and you keep Hayden listed at three because those girls knew how to party.  My wife went to Highland Park, and that is quite possibly the worst high school in all of Kansas.  Across the street is a halfway house and an empty Aldi's that went out of business as soon as the WIC store opened up across the street.

Glad I got out of Topeka after high school.  That town is abysmal.

(Abbreviated responses show I try not to think about my childhood there much.  )

[steve dave]

eliminators.   

World Series team. My sister's former (psycho) bo was on that team.

she never fracking told me this.  goddammit.

awkward 

[Rick Daris]

what's that guys?

you want me to tell you more of the story about when i was pulled over and frisked at gunpoint on the way to an away football game in highschool?

well...alright. not now though. kinda busy. sorry. maybe later.

[LimestoneOutcropping]

what's that guys?

you want me to tell you more of the story about when i was pulled over and frisked at gunpoint on the way to an away football game in highschool?

well...alright. not now though. kinda busy. sorry. maybe later.

 

[mikeycat]

http://cjonline.com/news/2009-07-07/teen_scores_perfect_on_tests

I graduated with a guy who did the same at WRHS in 94.     They made the announcement over the PA and I looked down and he was wearing 2 different color tube socks.