Mike Ford
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Mike Ford On Pep Band
By Mike Ford Thanks for sharing your chapter about the 1959-60 basketball season. Either you have an awfully good memory or else you have access to some detailed accounts of the games. Chuck Brunau mentioned watching Bob Kurch play in the “pit”. I can remember going to watch Bob & Mickey French play when I
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Summer Supermen In Milwaukee
By Michael Ford “I loved sports, but I was the bespectacled chubby guy who was more interested in sports statistics,” Mike Ford admits. “I participated but I was not the first guy picked when it came to choosing up sides.” With this admission, Mike Ford begins a story about two aspects of baseball that consumed his
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Mike Ford On Lake Winnebago
By Mike Ford Aside from views from the Niagara Escarpment (The Ledge), the crown jewel of Fond du Lac remains Lakeside Park on the southern edge of Lake Winnebago. It features a lighthouse that marked the entry to a harbor where boat owners keep their speedboats and sailing vessels. In the 1950s, the boats were