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[QUOTE="alibrat66, post: 43877, member: 197"]
[SIZE=4][FONT=arial]Another solid player was Mickey Flynn from St. Pat's. He and I played on the same Biddy Basketball team, along with George Deptula, Billy Jones, Joe Lane, Jimmy Joe Young, and some others I can't recall. We won the City, County, and State Championship. We took the train to play in in the world's championship tournament in Peoria, ILL. At that point, I think our record was something like 30-0. We won our first game against Peoria, the previous year's champion. I think we beat Puerto Rico next, then lost to Hazelton, PA, whose players were all bigger than our biggest player, George Deptula. The tournament was won by Jersey City. They had a guard named Vinnie Ernst, who went on to Providence and was the NIT most valuable player (back when the NIT was as big a tournament as the NCAA was).Our coach was Jim Furco (he also coached me in Little League baseball) a gentleman and dedicated to working with kids in the community. His day job was working on EF Hoffman's factory on Thompson Rd. [/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][FONT=arial]That time of my life was magical. Great just thinking about it.[/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][FONT=arial]PS: For all you Central fans, Eastwood regularly kicked your butts in every sport! I had a lot of friends who went to Central. [/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=4][FONT=arial]Good times.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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