52 Weeks of Photos 40/2022 Sports

Question

This week's 52 Weeks of Photos sharing theme: Sports

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a family photo that fits this week's theme.
2. Add it to this week's free-space gallery.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which photo you're sharing. If you want to include the photo but don't know how, click here.

The photo you share might be featured on the WikiTree home page and in our social media channels.

If you use a social network (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) you might want to share your photo there as well. This can be a great way to involve more family members. Many people love seeing old family photos. Be sure to add #52weeksofphotos and #wikitree to your post.

It is requested that no "best answer" stars be given to any photo, as they are all great pictures without exception and none should be preferred over the other.

Comments

This is in the Appreciation G2G category. Shouldn't it be the Tree House?

Answer 1

This is a 14 Jul 2007 newspaper photo and article about my daughter when she was a member of the Tulsa, Oklahoma women's roller derby team. The team was Green Country Roller Girls, and she used the name Anita Alibi.

 She is an attorney, and "I need an alibi" was a great name for her.

Comments

Wow sweet Alexis what a magnificent photo of your daughter she is adorable thank you for sharing 

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You have a beautiful daughter, Alexis.  It must have been exciting to watch her skate.

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That's awesome, Alexis! A friend of my eldest daughter's participated in roller derby around the same time in OKC. Maybe they rolled against each other at some point.  Her alias is so good!

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Susan, thank you for your sweet answer. As a child, she never had good skates—just the rental ones, but I bought good speed skates for her younger brother. I saved a pair of his skates that fit me—for times when the church went skating. One day, I gave his skates to her, and she realized that she was able to really skate. 

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Pat, thank you for your compliment and answer. I was not surprised, since her brother always won the skating races.

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John, thank you for your great comment. They absolutely knew all the girls from Oklahoma City really well. These teams were not that big, and the Tulsa and OKC teams were very often competing.

A good story—A girl from the Tulsa team won the Oklahoma lottery, and after they saw her driving her new Mercedes convertible—they never saw her again.

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What an awesome name for a Roller Derby skater - Anita Alibi.  She could not have a more perfect name.  Thanks for sharing the photo and story of the skater turned attorney. 

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Robert, thank you for the nice comment. Her two daughters were very young back then, but they were always at the rink with her—so they learned to roller skate at an early age.

Answer 2

I've shown this before, but it is one of my favorites. This is the 1947 Kathleen Coal Mine baseball team from Dowell, IL. My grandfather, Mike Vaskie Sr., is back row 3rd from the left. My cousin, Kenny House, is back row far right. 

Comments

No wonder it's one of your favorites.  Great photo, John.

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Wonderful photo John of the baseball team special with your grandfather on the photo

Thank you for sharing this wonderful treat

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Thanks for your comments Pat and Susan!!

Answer 3

My father (John Russell Miller 1915-1994), became interested in gymnastics as a teenager.  At University level he competed for Queens University (Kingston, Ontario).  This photo from one of his albums is of a Tumbling Exhibition in October 1942, that's 80 years ago this month.  The exhibition was performed by several men.  My father is the fellow doing the handstand.

Comments

Surely he did not take this picture himself?

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Ha, ha, Joyce.  I shall explain. The first two photo albums 1930s & 1940s include a lot of images of my father, taken by assorted friends, in addition to all the images Dad took himself. There's a "Private Volume" as he called it, with snap shots of my mother with comments. Then there are 7 "I now have a good camera" albums, 1950-1962, with hardly any photos of him, just photos he's taken, often of Mom and me.   This photo came from the 1940s album, with 6 images of this Tumbling Exhibition. I didn't select the one where Dad is flying through the air and his head is cut off. Whoops.  But I love that he put it in the album anyway.

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Pat your dad was a amazing gymnast wow amazing photo thank you for sharing

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Thank you, Susan, for your kind comment.

Answer 4

Few people ever see the start of the race. No one watches the race, of 100  miles or more. Each contestant ends in a different place, perhaps in a different town. So it is hard to find an interesting picture for the sport of pigeon racing. But here's my father, age 8, with some of his pigeons. (In later years, he won several trophies, but I don't have those either.)

Comments

Joyce, thank you for sharing the photo and story. I find that Sports and Athletics are the hardest questions for me to come up with an old photo.

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Alexis, if I can't find an old photo, I can usually take a new picture to fit the theme. It is fun to see how everyone responds to the challenge each week.

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Alexis, I certainly did not expect to see a picture of a glass of beer for this question.

Answer 5

My Gt. Grandfather John Edward Reeves was a member of the original ground committee for the West Ham Football Club. This photo was taken in 1902

Comments

That's awesome! Great pic and history!

Answer 6

Uncle Dick in his baseball uniform, sometime in the 1950's. He was a promising pitcher, and they thought he could get a college scholarship from that. But the story is, one day he decided to stab a knife into the dining room table, not realizing he had butter on his hand. He cut his fingers badly, and that was the end of his pitching career.

Answer 7

If beer drinking isn't a sport on its own, it should be. It does, however, go so well with so many sports. This is a Skål til Steinen (Cheers to the Stone) from Pulpit Rock Brewery in Decorah, Iowa.

Comments

I figured we are related, but damn 27th1r I figured it would be closer than that. I've always said If it can't kill ya it aint a sport, my Dr's have confirmed, it is a sport! For what it's worth you are my most distant cousin to date---CHEERS!!

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A very creatice answer. Thanks, Mark.

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Lifting a glass is way better than lifting a weight. lol