It's Never Easy But Sometimes It's Good
Easy Ed Macauley has died, at 83 years young
Red traded Macauley and the Ice Capades for Russ, to the rascist Hawks, who wanted no part of a Negro genius. Ed? He wanted to go home. Red let it happen
11/13 (12/13 but for an ankle sprain)
Easy Ed; no one ever said a bad word about him. Shoulders like a girl’s. The Cs won a lot of games in the 50s with Ed, Cooz, and Sharman but needed someone special in the middle
Ed's passing makes me sad for the guys left, who must be hurting today. Their teammates dying. Wives getting sick. All that shit.
Larry Seigfried, a Celtic, died last year, too young
The Cs were and are a special group of fellas. Guys today have no idea. Apple fights on the road to Burlington. Two months of exhibitions all over New England against whomever had a gym and two hundred dollars. Red’s bad driving on the back roads of New Hampshire. Cooz up all night, every night. Shit. The front office? Red, Walter Brown, and a secretary. On a whim, Gene wanting to go to Isreal. Tough? Jungle Jim and everyone else: Fights every night, beers later. Tommy going on strike at the All Star Game: HEEL.
Today’s AAU Superstars have no idea. Playing the game for millions? The guys dying today made ten grand a year and worked as carpenters and insurance salesmen in the offseason. They were scared of not having the mortgage paid on time. They played for love of the damn game and the guys next to them
How many years does the great Cooz have left? Russ looks good; a life well lived. Success. Tommy is overweight and yells a lot. He's a bit scared, noble, and proud of what he’s done.
Almost all the Cs were successes in life after their ball stopped bouncing
And the owners let Larry take the last shot? A fucking travesty that I won’t ever ever forget. Tommy should have let it fly. It would have gone in, I believe
Red traded Macauley and the Ice Capades for Russ, to the rascist Hawks, who wanted no part of a Negro genius. Ed? He wanted to go home. Red let it happen
11/13 (12/13 but for an ankle sprain)
Easy Ed; no one ever said a bad word about him. Shoulders like a girl’s. The Cs won a lot of games in the 50s with Ed, Cooz, and Sharman but needed someone special in the middle
Ed's passing makes me sad for the guys left, who must be hurting today. Their teammates dying. Wives getting sick. All that shit.
Larry Seigfried, a Celtic, died last year, too young
The Cs were and are a special group of fellas. Guys today have no idea. Apple fights on the road to Burlington. Two months of exhibitions all over New England against whomever had a gym and two hundred dollars. Red’s bad driving on the back roads of New Hampshire. Cooz up all night, every night. Shit. The front office? Red, Walter Brown, and a secretary. On a whim, Gene wanting to go to Isreal. Tough? Jungle Jim and everyone else: Fights every night, beers later. Tommy going on strike at the All Star Game: HEEL.
Today’s AAU Superstars have no idea. Playing the game for millions? The guys dying today made ten grand a year and worked as carpenters and insurance salesmen in the offseason. They were scared of not having the mortgage paid on time. They played for love of the damn game and the guys next to them
How many years does the great Cooz have left? Russ looks good; a life well lived. Success. Tommy is overweight and yells a lot. He's a bit scared, noble, and proud of what he’s done.
Almost all the Cs were successes in life after their ball stopped bouncing
And the owners let Larry take the last shot? A fucking travesty that I won’t ever ever forget. Tommy should have let it fly. It would have gone in, I believe
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