RIP Phil Garner

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My favorite story i read was that an Astro's beat reporter called Garner after the Astros let him go. He had gotten to know him fairly well during his time in Houston and their relationship was friendly.

To the writer's surprise, Garner answered the phone laughing. He asked Phil what was so funny.

Garner said "Because you have to work today and I don't."

Now THAT'S how you do it. Great man.
 
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This one hurts. He was a year ahead of me at Bearden, he obviously stole all my athleticism. He could do it all and coaches could not find a path for me; maybe it was my 4.5 twenty speed and my 4 inch vertical jump. Entered my senior year at 5’7”…… topped out at 6’3” in college…..

Talked to him just a few years back at a dedication or rededication of the baseball complex at Bearden. I was much more familiar with his twin sisters in my class. Good people all. Of course we all attended the old school a few miles down the road. They all resided in the Houston area at that time per our conversation.

RIP….
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
This one hurts. He was a year ahead of me at Bearden, he obviously stole all my athleticism. He could do it all and coaches could not find a path for me; maybe it was my 4.5 twenty speed and my 4 inch vertical jump. Entered my senior year at 5’7”…… topped out at 6’3” in college…..

Talked to him just a few years back at a dedication or rededication of the baseball complex at Bearden. I was much more familiar with his twin sisters in my class. Good people all. Of course we all attended the old school a few miles down the road. They all resided in the Houston area at that time per our conversation.

RIP….
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Great post

I was at West High while you were at Bearden and was trying to remember if Phil started at QB as a sophomore for the Bulldogs or as a soph for the basketball team (I am assuming he could have started as a ninth grader) on the baseball team.
That was a great basketball team in 67 with Phil, Kent Hollenbeck, and, I think, Robert Crawley and Bill Lowry(???)
 
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ArdentVol said:
Great post

I was at West High while you were at Bearden and was trying to remember if Phil started at QB as a sophomore for the Bulldogs or as a soph for the basketball team (I am assuming he could have started as a ninth grader) on the baseball team.
That was a great basketball team in 67 with Phil, Kent Hollenbeck, and, I think, Robert Crawley and Bill Lowry(???)
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Kent was the oddest GIFTED player I ever saw. He had no concept of his talent. They had to shame him onto the team by at West Hills. I heard he said, if I did no think it would go in I would not shoot it. No telling what he could have accomplished with a little ego driving him.

I thought Dan Hall was the other starter, but….,

Saw him make some amazing shots inside, mid range and what would have been from 3. Hate he tore up both ankles at KY.

The scuttle but I got was Mears called first legal signing day, he said he was ready to sign on, but Dad, whose job took him to Virginia Beach (memory?) said KY. Kent lived with Coach Beeler his Sr. Year I think, once again memory dependent.

We never won big, with him or a few years earlier with Wayne Tipton….,,,both state players of the year. Wayne played a few years with Pistol Pete at LSU.

We have maxed out my way back machine!!!!
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
Kent was the oddest GIFTED player I ever saw. He had no concept of his talent. They had to shame him onto the team by at West Hills. I heard he said, if I did no think it would go in I would not shoot it. No telling what he could have accomplished with a little ego driving him.

I thought Dan Hall was the other starter, but….,

Saw him make some amazing shots inside, mid range and what would have been from 3. Hate he tore up both ankles at KY.

The scuttle but I got was Mears called first legal signing day, he said he was ready to sign on, but Dad, whose job took him to Virginia Beach (memory?) said KY. Kent lived with Coach Beeler his Sr. Year I think, once again memory dependent.

We never won big, with him or a few years earlier with Wayne Tipton….,,,both state players of the year. Wayne played a few years with Pistol Pete at LSU.

We have maxed out my way back machine!!!!
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Interesting stuff about Kent. We were in same group at Mears summer camp at Webb somewhere during the junior high daze, and he was the best basketball player I had ever seen. Had no idea he lived with Coach Beeler his senior year and for some reason thought he was Kentucky bound. I can't imagine what kind of pressure he was under to stay home. Bill was the only one of that Bearden team I knew. I was a a benchwarmer in my failed athletic days and I was forced to play one time agajnst Phil and was quickly back on the bench. He made a fool of me
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
From a Pirates Cardinals game my Dad and I scored back in the day at Busch.

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What a treasure! Was your Dad giving you a few tips on how to keep a scorecard, and did you go Ted Drewes afterward?

My Dad was not a baseball fan, and I got interested in scoring watching my great aunt at a Senators' game in the early 60s. My treasure is from a Cardinals-Reds game in Sportsman's Park. One of my father's good friends had moved to St Louis and had a season box in shallow RF. Gibson started, didn't have good stuff, but he went deep and homered to help in the Birds' to victory.

Learning how to keep a scorecard proved a big help earning money while in junior high. I kept the scorebook at the LL park on Cherokee Blvd and got paid for calling details of the games to both the Journal and Sentinel
 
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