tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193444339911574734.post5462068234453595473..comments2024-02-14T13:01:44.087-06:00Comments on Bob Lemke's Blog: Pop Schriver's Monumental catchBob Lemkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13161159323885411503noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4193444339911574734.post-25629422494089683602014-08-10T08:44:58.067-05:002014-08-10T08:44:58.067-05:00Joe Sprinz was a kind, generous fellow as well as ...Joe Sprinz was a kind, generous fellow as well as a terrific baseball man in San Francisco. Joe Sprinz gave me my first pair of spikes, from his last year as a coach for the San Francisco Seals, in 1958. After leaving professional baseball, Sprinz worked as an investigator for the San Francisco District Attorney. Until he turned sixty, when Sprinz decided to devote his weekends to competitive tennis, he held informal baseball workouts at Golden Gate Park's Big Rec at 7th Avenue for former professional ball players like himself... workouts which included high school players who Sprinz wanted to help develop. I was privileged in the early 1960's to be part of those Joe Sprinz weekend baseball practices. Right up to age 60, Sprinz, who had played professional baseball for two decades, was athletic... could run well, throw well, and he could hit a ball to all fields with authority.<br />Joe Sprinz was a great man! Poet Red Shuttleworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053848100740944133noreply@blogger.com