Letter To The Editor – Nov. 10, 2011

Dear Editor,
    When I saw in the paper where they were painting the Crawford Sports Complex sign I wondered what had happened to the Ritter-Tyler Ball Field?     
    “Crip” Tyler was the man who started the ball program for the young boys and later girls. He got the family involved, mothers washed uniforms; daddies coached, umpired, and did whatever needed to be done.
    His wife, Geanie, ran the concession stand, cooking hamburgers, making snow cones, selling Cokes. “Crip” was our “Mr. Baseball,” a man that cared about all the young people that ever played for him. I hope that one of those will step up to home plate and get that sign replaced or some kind of memorial placed on the old pitcher’s mound for him.
  /s/Margie Williamson
  Clay Street
  Water Valley