I would pick my son Brian up after work and we would get in 9 holes. Brian, who played
on the Johnson HS golf team got his one and only hole in one on the 3rd hole.
I've been playing 40 plus years and am still waiting for my first. 🤨
Reading the Ledger in the 70s and 80s
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on the Johnson HS golf team got his one and only hole in one on the 3rd hole.
I've been playing 40 plus years and am still waiting for my first. 🤨
My FIL was a starter/ranger there for many years. Oh the stories...🤫
Same here. Played 3-4 times a week from the mid-80s through about the late 90s, then a bit less in the 2000s, but mostly stopped playing over the last 10 years and especially the last 4 since I took up disc golf, again, with a vengeance. Closest I ever came was hole 3 at RU, where my 6-iron from 175 grazed the cup and finished 6" behind the cup (and I had my 6-iron in my hand and threw it towards my bag and asked my friend to bring me my putter and then I left the 6-iron on the apron and didn't notice until the end of the round - nobody ever returned it). Oddly enough, I probably made about 7-8 eagles from the fairway from distances between 100-200 yards, but never a hole in one.
For any of you that played hs sports or youth sports …how about getting your name in the paper for a sacrifice fly ! What a thrill!
Yeah the local paper here...Hillsborough Beacon which I believe may still exist in an online form
What happened to this world
Lots of things . For starters many people never broadcasted their politics on message boards.
People fought and died for that curtain.
No one valued the work, or at least enough where you could make a decent living at it. I referenced it in the other thread. I believe the purest, most bread-and-butter form of journalism is at the local level. That’s where the majority of our tax dollars go and no one is covering the entities that spend them. The national stuff is bs theater in my opinion.
Same thing with all these internet political heroes. Posting about stuff thousands of miles away and ranting and raving about politicians , but they don’t even know who is in charge of their garbage collection
Agree. I don’t want to take this thread in a negative direction but I started my career in municipal journalism and had to get out because I couldn’t make a decent living at it. It’s no one’s fault - it was just the value that society places on it. We need to place a higher value on it.
Yes . @bac2therac started this thread and then asked what happened to this world….i was just answering the poster and the starter of this thread.
People are on message boards complaining, but when have they been to a local council meeting ??
Star ledger sports section was good . Yeah back to topic in first post in this thread
I love sitting down every morning & having a cup of coffee & a snack & reading the Ledger sports section & the NYT, but then again I'm old.
Moved to Central Jersey in 99 and discovered the Ledger and learned so much about Central & North Jersey.
-Rutgers Plus section the day after game. Tom Lucci and Jerry Izenburg. Paul Nedell I believe covered NFL.
-Tom Luccis top 25/College wrap-up on Monday.
-Business section with focus on NJ companies and personal finance column
-Munchmobile and Fine Dining profile innFriday Weekend Insert.
-Local Section that featured Town Profiles and Industrial history. I think it was called Day in Life.
-County editions for Middlesex Union or Essex. Depending where you bought.
-Sunday Morning grocery store would have carts full of papers. Pass 12 Noon all paper gone!
-Rutgers Plus section the day after game. Tom Lucci and Jerry Izenburg. Paul Nedell I believe covered NFL.
-Tom Luccis top 25/College wrap-up on Monday.
-Business section with focus on NJ companies and personal finance column
-Munchmobile and Fine Dining profile innFriday Weekend Insert.
-Local Section that featured Town Profiles and Industrial history. I think it was called Day in Life.
-County editions for Middlesex Union or Essex. Depending where you bought.
-Sunday Morning grocery store would have carts full of papers. Pass 12 Noon all paper gone!
My aunt made me a scrap book with all of the clippings from my high school days, both athletic and academic, then later college. Still have it. I flip through it every few years when I come across it. Simpler times back then
I also played there a lot with my father and uncles in that same time period. Was the easiest of the three union county courses at the time. Wide open and relatively flat compared to Galloping Hill and to a lesser extent Ash Brook. I think it primarily a park with walking paths and i guess the disc course you mention. Good memories of time with my dad and uncles even though I was a lousy golfer.
Thanks Bac. You spurred a lot of good Star Ledger memories for me from the same time period. It was a staple for me just like food. The sports section was great and they had some really good beat and weekly opinion/sport round up reporters. The Sunday columns were highly anticipated. There were two Klein brothers who covered baseball and football. I think Bill Born was the HS basketball coach at Union Catholic for a while. They did have county editions and seemed to focus more on North and Central NJ. I think the Bergen Record was stiff competition in the north and given their Newark hub they never made too big of an investment in South Jersey. They also had stars on the editions with more stars indicating it was a later printing and thus had more prior night sports scores. I think the paper cost 15 cents when I started reading it. I think the beginning of the demise for sports was when the hired a service to provide coverage of HS sports instead of doing it in house.
THIS. As someone who played multiple high school sports, I may be biased in this area, but the coverage was expansive. The predictions, results, football game write-ups, 1st/2nd/3rd/Honorable Mention all county teams with individual pics and blurbs about the 1st teamers was nirvana for me. Bac is right, even field hockey, cross country, tennis, golf, wrestling by weight class. Truly unrivaled.
Jerry Izenberg was the best and always a must read. Surprised I haven't seen his name until this post.
He was great. . Enjoyed his columns about Ali the most.
Another thing that died off …boxing
Grew up reading the Elizabeth Daily Journal in the 50s and 60s. Detailed reporting on all high school sports. They even had CYO basketball and summer league baseball box scores.
My son got a hole in one on the 12th hole at Berkshire Valley about 5 years ago. This year I went to Pinchbrook to work on my irons and got a hole in one on the 7th hole. For my son's birthday we had an 8x10 photo of us side by side holding the pin flag in one hand and the golf ball in the other with the caption "The Hole in One Gang". Priceless.
Did anyone else wait for anticipation for the delivery of the Home News in the afternoon to get the scores of the West Coast games that finished too late to make the Ledger in the morning?
didn’t see this mentioned yet…one of the best things about the local papers was the police blotter . Always a thrill to get your name in the paper !!
In the targum, it was great seeing names you recognized.
In the targum, it was great seeing names you recognized.
100% accurate about his Ali columns. Even years after he retired, he'd grace that rag with an occasional column worth reading. He was one of the greats that even was able to weave in social injustices without flaming the masses.
