Home Run Heroics

Ironically, exactly 100 years ago:

Another famous Thorpe, Jim Thorpe, started his minor league baseball career playing for the Rocky Mount Railroaders in 1909!

That's my baseball history lesson for today!

 

" kemosabe...jump on it...jump on it"...That is so cool to be able to see what everyone was talking about.

Did you notice how being on TV makes one look thinner

 

Did Q recruit him?

 

The cat is out of the bag

so let me tell you about it. Q's late Grandpa Quintifalis Leggett was the recruiter for Rocky Mount back in the day. He actually failed in his attempts to get Jim Thorpe to transfer to Rocky Mount. So he offered up some extra peanuts and a part time job at the peanut plant to get Jim to play for the Minor League Club. Word has it that Jim actually was the guy that paid for the current land that Rocky Mount stadium is built on. You know that was the minor league park. Q would later fall into his late granpa's footsteps as the head recruiter for Rocky Mount. He has some big shoes to fill no doubt but he is doing an excellent job so far.

A "Quirt" is a term that started back in the 1900's in the Rocky Mount area and it is still known today. It stands for "Quintifalis Recruit". There are many people in the Nash county area that still hope and pray that one day their child will become a "Quirt". There is no higher honor than this in the Rocky Mount area. Kids on the local rec teams grow up saying "One day I am going to be a Quirt." It is a known fact that once a kid is designated a "Quirt" there on the radar bigtime and it will not be long before the younger "Q" is hot on their trail. Folks he doesnt miss much. Just like Old Great Grand Pa Quintifalis!

 

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At least he got it honest, huh..........lmaooooooooooooo

 

Brian Allen of West Stokes hit his third home run of the playoffs against Orange on Friday night. It was the one pitch he saw all night that was a strike and he drilled it.

 

Exactly the conversation my carload had after the game. Very good hitter who happens to have a boat load of power. I had a very insightful conversation with his dad about Chase's batting instruction and some of the things they work on. Certainly you have to have natural ability, but apparently Mike Mullis has tweaked this boys God given talent pretty well.

 

Alas, I'm no longer the covert operator that steals players from local academies and surrounding counties to benefit Rocky Mount Senior High. It won't be the same for the near future. The peanut industry is down, which means that all the extra money that I was using to entice the recruits is now non existent. That will make it tough to get kids to play for the love of the game in a great program. Maybe my last recruiting hurrah will be to lure a certain power hitter from Greenville to suit up in a better looking uniform(you know that's about the only knock on the Rose program). Wouldn't we be assured of a state chanmpionship next year? Just like we were a lock to repeat this year because of a couple of new guys? I keep forgetting it's baseball we're talking about. Anyway, as far as the Jim Thorpe thing? Let's just say that my wife was lucky that her father was also named James, so it would look like we named our son after him.

 

After going on google and doing some reseach about this...it's absolutely true. I have heard the young kids in the RM area at LL games shouting, 'Q is coming!...Q is coming!" While the older kids proudly display their T-Shirts, "I am a Quirt"

 

delving even deeper, I took the Deeds of Trust angle and found that his grandaddy made a fortune in real estate, buying homes in district and selling them to recruit familiys. To this day, when a real estate agent in Nash or Edgecombe County hits a homerun on a home sale, it's known as a "Quirter"....