He came to my baseball games regularly but I don't think we ever tossed a ball. He never got to my basketball or football games because I only played right after school.
He and I often listened to the Reds on radio and later watched on television when they were the Saturday game of the week. We were Browns football fans until the Bengals moved to town in 1968. On Saturday afternoons in the Fall, we listened to Notre Dame football on the radio. He liked both Xavier and UC basketball.
As for attending games, he did that very rarely. I only remember going to two Reds games before I was married. I took him to his first Bengals game at Riverfront Stadium. He probably didn't see a college basketball game until the 1980's.
Oh, he did see one of my basketball games. I played in a Cincinnati recreation league with my future brother-in-law, Bill, while I was in college. This game was at a junior high on the west side of town. He attended with my future father-in-law, Reed Ulrey. Reed didn't know much about basketball. They both sat in the first row of the stands.
Well, the league was kinda ruff but the referees kept things under control. In the later part of the game, a little pushing followed a hard foul - nothing out of the ordinary. Dad later related to me that he was stunned to see Reed on his feet, hiking his pants up and heading for the middle of the court. He got there but the refs and his son sent him back. If there was going to be a fight, Reed wanted to be in it.
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