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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Steve Carlton is a young man
as compared to Bob Harris of
Dallas, who at the age of 52,
plays either shortstop or third
base on the Native Textile/
Brown’s Oil team, and outhits
“on the team.
Harris, who lettered in three
varsity sports when in high
school, continues to be an out-
standing athlete today, playing
baseball, basketball, raquetball,
golf, and football when he can
round up enough ‘‘guys” to field
a team.
In addition, he is the father of
six children, several grandchil-
dren, and drives a tractor-trailer
convoy hauling cars.
Harris not only plays on the
Native Textile/Brown’s Oil team
in the Bi-County League, but also
manages it. The team members
are all much younger than he,
ranging in age from high school
students to college age.
“Last year my batting average
was over .500 for the season but
this year it is only .478. I attrib-
ute the drop to the fact that we
don’t practice this season,” said
Harris. ‘Last season we used to
get in some practices but the
kids on the team this year, for
some reason, don’t care for prac-
ticing.
How much longer does Harris
expect to play on the team?”
“When these young kids prove
they’re better than I am, Ill
quit,” he ansered.
Last year the team didn’t have
enough players so Harris played
about midway between second
and right field which put him in
the right position to field a hit
ball in either spot.
Coaches of some of the teams
in the present Bi-County League
were boys he played against
when they were younger.
Harris said this season’s team
could be higher in the league if
all of the players would show up
every Sunday but sometimes, he
is rounding up just enough to
make a full team an hour or so
before the game.
like we did at their age. It’s too
are real good players.”
Up until two years ago, he
played basketball against teams
whose players were only half his
age. Harris also told about the
time he played football on a local
team (not too many years ago)
because the local team didn’t
have. enough young players and
they were scheduled to play
against the All-Star team of play-
ers at the State Correctional
Institution at Dallas.
“That was the greatest experi-
ence of my life,” said Harris.
“We held that team scoreless for
the entire four quarters. At the
beginning of the fourth quarter,
one of the officials came over
and asked us if there was no
score at the end of the game,
would we be willing to play a
fifth quarter. We agreed.”
At the end of the fourth
quarter, neither team had
scored, so the game went into the
fifth quarter and the local team
held the SCID team scoreless.
Harris, those All-Stars weren’t
Harris ever played against, he
said they were the nicest guys he
went against. They were super
athletes, but they were gentle-
men in that game, said Harris.
Athletics has been his life since
he was a kid. He played sandlot
ball in a field where his home
now stands on Center Hill Road,
Dallas. In high school, he earned
nine letters, including three var-
sity letters in basketball, three in
football and three in baseball,
the only sports teams the schools
offered at that time.
Bob Harris attended first
grade in Dallas and Lake-
Lehman, then with his parents
moved to Forty Fort where he
lived until he was in the sixth
grade. His family then moved
back to Dallas and Bob attended
Dallas schools from where he
graduated.
During his first year on the
football team, he weighed 98 lbs.
weighed 128.
An over-the-road tractor-trailer
driver for more than 20 years, he
that time, he had to give up
baseball, basketball, bowling,
golf and football, so he took up
racquetball.
He discovered that he enjoyed
raquetball and became good at it
so when he was able to resume
playing the other sports, he did
but also continued to play raquet-
ball as often as he could. A
warning to players, he is a keen
competitor and difficult to beat.
Harris also bowls in the Crown
Imperial Major League and sub-
stitutes in the Monday night
league. He ended this season
with about a 178 average lower
than he usually carries but he
considers it not bad for bowling
only one night weekly. He still
plays golf, but can’t get out -on
the green as often as he would
like but says just wait until he
can retire and play more often.
His wife, the former Mary
Wilson, was also an outstanding
athlete and played softball and
hockey in school. The coaches
wouldn’t let her play basketball.
They told her she was too rough
to play. She was also a cheer-
leader.
Their children, Bob, Earl,
Annette, Brian, Mary Lou and
Johnnie, are also athletes and
high school continue their inter-
est in various sports — the boys
primarily in baseball and bowl-
ing as participants, in most
others as spectators; the two
girls in hockey and bowling, and
like their brothers, most others
as spectators. When a member of
the family is competing, any
other members who can be
there, usually are.
The first year Bob went back
into the, Bi-County League, he
played on a Beaumont team and
played against his sons, who
played for Dallas. Now, he
coaches a team and his sons are
playing with him. Bob is not only
a leading hitter in the league, but
he does a lot of stealing bases
during the season. He doesn’t
steal all of them because of
speed, he admitted, some are by
finesse. Not one player on the
team can outrun him, however,
from home plate to first base and
he can still beat out bunts.
Just as he said, ‘“You’re never
too old to be an athlete. When the
younger kids prove that they’re
better than I am, then I’ll quit.”
Quit playing in competition with
them he means, but not quitting
participating in the sports he
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By STEVE SVETOVICH
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“We have a very interesting life.
We used to go to Detroit for the
summer when our daughter, Joy,
was very young. Now, we see Dick
whenever we can when the Tigers
are playing in New York, Baltimore
or Boston. It’s not easy being a
baseball wife, because Dick is away
much of the time, but Joy loves it.
She and her father are very close.
We have a close family,” com-
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husband Dick is the first base coach
of the Detroit Tigers.
The Tracewskis were married
February 16, 1963 when Dick was an
infielder with the Dodgers. Daugh-
ter, Joy, a former cheerleader at
Bishop O’Hara High School in Dun-
more (1981 graduate) will be gradu-
ating May 18th with a B.S. in
Nursing from Marywood College.
She also attended Cedar Crest Col-
lege for two years. The family
currently resides at 5 Flora Drive in
Peckville.
Mrs. Tracewski, was born in May-
field, Pa. and graduated from May-
field High School. She revealed to
me that Dick played high school
baseball at Archibald High School
before signing with the Dodgers in
1953 although he originally was sup-
posed to have signed with Cleve-
land. Dick put a two-year stint in
the Army, 1959-1961, before appear-
ing in his first big league game with
the Dodgers in 1962 where he began
his eight year career.
Tracewski immediately went into
coaching after his career ended in
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