[Nzoner]

1.Pony league all-stars,game 5 of a 5 game series and down by one run in the bottom of the 7th with a runner on 2nd and I hit the series winning home run.

2.The above team's picnic and trophy presentation,I got awarded a gold glove with my home run ball sitting in it that had been signed by the entire team.

3.Waiting anxiously as mom popped up a big bag of popcorn and dad got drinks ready for family night at the drive-in theatre.

4.Saturday night Creature Feature with Ed Muscari on the then channel 41.My parents usually went out every Saturday and my uncle would watch my lil bro and I.We'd order a large pizza right before CF started and then settle in for an evening of the classic b/w horror films.

5.3rd grade,my next door neighbor Barbara coming into my homemade tent in the backyard and playing doctor.

6.Swinging from the tree rope and splashing into the farm pond that was on my step-grandfather's farm.

7.Pony league regular season,being on a 21-3 team and then going into city tournament losing our first game(of double elimination)and coming all the back through the bracket to win the city championship.

8.One paticular day I spent with my late uncle Butch,he took me hunting for pop bottles(yeah you used to be able to cash them in for money)so I could buy my first ever 8-track tape.I was only nine but liked the name of a band called Led Zeppelin and I picked the tape IV or Zoso.

9.A family vacation with my lil bro,mom and my step-dad and his 4 kids to Hannibal,Mo to check out all the Mark Twain stuff.

10.Christmas of my 5th grade year when i got first real stereo for my own room.