Swanky Sacred Heart Prep (pictured) was apparently so eager for some athletic glory in the early 1990s that it hired a character from Daly City, Mike “Chubby” Ciardella, to run its girls basketball program. Ciardella won 80 consecutive games. By John Murphy The other day at 3 a.m. or some godforsaken hour I got aContinue reading “Burlingame daze with Mike “Chubby” Ciardella, Daddy Wags, Carl Reyna et al”
Tag Archives: San Francisco Giants
Thrifting my life away
Santa Clara University, which no longer plays football, never played Army (as in West Point) in football, but did play a West Coast Army-base team. This poster advertised the contest. By John Murphy Last week I perused the Internet and read about a guy who visited a SoCal thrift store and found a valuable gamingContinue reading “Thrifting my life away”
Happy birthday, dad
My dad was as Irish as a glass of Jameson and was a second-generation San Franciscan.
Box of memories
By John Murphy The other day I received a letter from my credit union saying all the safe deposit boxes were closing. I had to move my contents. So on Saturday I hit the bank and scanned the goodies. They included about 100 baseball cards of one Hall of Fame player I won’t mention byContinue reading “Box of memories”
Muskrat love
That’s Hollywood, Florida by the way and there was never a Spam factory there, as the Cahoots funny paper reported. It’s all the imagination of Jeff Hansen, 70, a former Watsonville resident who moved to Florida several years ago after a colorful run on the Central Coast of Cali.
Game 7 glee
Minus the 2020 season to be excited about, I’m going to look back at Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. That was my San Francisco Giants (yes, I’m the owner) at the Kansas City Royals.
Main Street Dog 