Rene’s Take

I feel that I am one of the luckiest people alive. I am doing what  I have always wanted to do. I was always a huge sports fan listening to the Red Sox on the radio every night and was always ready for a game of baseball, football, basketball. I grew up in Sheridan….or as i like to joke “the burbs of Ashland”. My parents were always very supportive of my sports addiction and they did everything they could to encourage me and my friends . My father is  my biggest role model and my mother my biggest fan. I remember when I was in fourth grade my father put together a town baseball team to compete against other small communities. The thing I remember most is my father and our catcher,Mike Baker, making the catcher’s chest protecter. Dad took Mike with him to the junkyard and cut padding out of the seats of the junk cars and made a makeshift chest protecter to start the season. By the end of the year we had all the catcher’s equipment that was needed. Our first game was in Eagle Lake and I still  reminisce with Lloyd Soucie the Eagle Lake coach about the games we had. My mother and several other parents were at every game from the time we were pre teens through our high school careers.

There wasn’t a day that went by that a yard full of kids were at my house playing a pickup game of some sort. As we got older the yard wasn’t big enough, but once again some  adults in town came through for us making a baseball field next to the Post Office on land owned by Reynold and Rella Caron. I still smile whenever i drive by and if I close my eyes I can still see us playing. It was a huge deal with kids from Ashland also traveling to Sheridan for a game of baseball.

In high school I competed in cross country, basketball and baseball. My senior year we made it to the Eastern Maine Championships losing to Narraguagus in the title game. Baseball was my game though as i made All-Aroostook two years in a row. I continue to be a huge sports fan and watch it all the time. My son AJ shares my love of sports. My dauthers, Angela and Amber, would tolerate my sports addition watching a few minutes of the games with me.

As you can see sports has always been a huge part of my life and I hope that my love and enthusiasm for the sport is passed along to the viewers in my sportscast every night

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