Your greatest sports triumphs

[jackson13]

Now we can all tell the stories of the greatest sports moments of our own personal lives. Here are my stories.

I was 13 playing little league ball and my team was losing. We were in the field and the bases were clear. This big huge kid on the other team named Seth steps up to bat and immediately blasts one into center field. The scrawny kid playing center couldnt get to the ball in time so I ran from right field to the fence and picked it up and heaved it home. Seth was so sure he got a home run that he was jogging down the 3rd base line like he had all the time in the world. Well, my throw, and im seriously not joking here, went all the way from the center field fence (I pushed off of it with my other hand for extra power) directly to the catcher standing on the 3rd base line watching all of this go down. He hardly had to move his glove to catch the ball. Meanwhile, Seth is still jogging home when all of a sudden he realizes that somehow someway the catcher is holding the ball in his glove. The catcher tags Seth out and all of a sudden everyone in the bleachers and in both dugouts and even Seth himself are staring out into right field, looking at me like "How the hell did he do that?" Seth was pissed, mainly because he couldnt figure out how this kid who was smaller than him (not by much, we are the same size now) threw him out at home plate from the center field fence. Fortunately, time has passed, the wound for Seth has healed, and we are friends now. In fact, when we are hanging out every once in awhile, he'll say something degrading to me all in fun and I'll just come back with "Remember the time I threw you out from the center field fence?" He pretty much shuts up then.


Same year of little league. My team is one of the final 8 teams in the playoffs. We're down 1 run with 2 outs in the 7th inning (little league here is only 7 innings). Theres one person on first, and the kid that was up to bat gets walked, which promts me to the plate. Before I start to walk up to the plate I turn and say to my g/f in the stands "Im gonna win this game for us". I get up to bat, take 2 balls, foul a couple off and then the perfect pitch, and I crack a line drive into right field (Im a lefty, throwing and hitting). The kid on second scores to tie the game, and the kid on first is rounding third as I head to second. The throw comes in and I get cought in a run down. The kid that rounded third scores, and when he did, it distracted the 2nd baseman who ended up bobbling the ball. I slid around him into second and was SAFE. Because I was safe, the run counted, and we won the game. That game is also memorable because that was the only time I ever survived a run-down during a game. Before I always got tagged out. Since we won we got into the final 4 of the playoffs but we ended up losing. Oh well.

Another triumph of mine was the first year I became a pitcher in little league. I was 12, and had never pitched before, but I was pitching for fun in practice one day and the coach liked what he saw. My 3rd game of the season I ended up having a perfect game. No hits, no walks, no runs, pitched all 7 innings. Of course I cant take full credit, because my teammates helped by getting the outs when the ball was hit. But still, I got in the paper for it.

So, what are your sports nostalgia stories? Got any to share?

[Morgana]

My favorite personal sports triumph was when I ran in a 10k race about 15 years ago. At the beginning, and throughout the majority of the race, I was dead last. It was very discouraging, whatever sport I do I don't want to come in dead last. But I kept on plowing along, and when there was only about 300 yards left my "kick" kicked in, and I started passing all these people. I must've passed at least a dozen runners, and they couldn't catch me. So I didn't end up coming in last afterall. I didn't come in first, far from it, but I was just totally stoked I finished and I didn't come in dead last. :)

[SubMethod]

Baseball:

1.The first time that I hit a home run over the fence. It went over the left field fence and was probably the best I ever felt after I game.

2.When I hit an in the park grand slam to win the game. We were down by three in the last inning and I was up to bat, and well the rest is history. :D

3.When my team won the championship two years in a row. One year we were 15-1 and the next year we were 14-2.

4.When my team scored 20 points in one inning. In the same inning there were four over the fence home runs in a row, and I remember batting at least three times. I hit one of the home runs and also got a double, walked the other time though.

Basketball:

1.I only have one for basketball. It was when I was on the 8th grade basketball team and we were the worst team in the whole district. We hadn't won a game the whole year. But, we still played in a tournament near the end of the season. In our second game we were matched up against the team that ended up winning the entire tournament. Well, my team played the best game ever and nearly beat be the best team in the district. The final score ended up being like 33-32 or something. That's how close a game it was. Even though we didn't win, it was still a great moment knowing how hard we played.

[travis]

In fifth grade while playing football at recess, I was running without looking where I was going. I ended up running full speed into a dumpster and knocking myself out. I thought that was pretty cool at the time. :cool:

[screamer581]

Hm. I think mine was back in the 8th grade year with the big middle school basketball tournament. Similar to Sub's, we didn't actually win, but we sure as hell put up a fight. Ok.. .I was never an amazing basketball player, but I wasn't too bad. I did freaking love to play, so I entered my name in the big touney. Pretty much everybody had already formed their own team, so to put it nicely, there wasn't many good players left. Well eventually I found 3 guys, none very good, but they were pretty much my only choices. We of course drew the hardest team in the first round. It didn’t bother me too much, I always like being the underdog. Well anyways, I was all pumped up and ready to go...but one of my players ditched us! He never showed up. So we only had 3 players, which would mean we couldn't sub at all, and we would be really freaking tired. Well I don't want to toot my own horn, but I played probably the best game of my life. I don't think I missed a shot the whole game....but I was also the only one that actually scored. It was a tight game the whole way through, but in the end we ended up losing by 2. Ah well I thought, hopefully we can win our next game. I expected to get at least get a little breather, but literally a minute after our first game, we had to play the second. Need less to say, we were all DEAD. Well luckily my team did help me out a little more in the second game, but it still wasn't enough..we ran out of gas pretty quickly. I still had an amazing game. I think the highlight of the game was one of the other team's girlfriends was just yelling every single time her man touched the ball, and was cheering her ass off for them. Well I nailed a big three to tie the game up late that really shut her up. Like I said though, it wasn't quite enough. We ended up losing by 3 I believe. After the game the other team came up to me and shook my hand, I know it sounds corny...but damnit it was pretty fucking cool. Well that's my stupid story, hope you enjoyed.

[Kastman]

My little cricket story:

A couple of seasons ago i was playing in the best team in the league, mainly because we had the best player in the league, and he carried the team pretty much. Well when we played the second best team in the league, we were like 5 for 20, and he got out for 5 or something, and i had to come into bat. This was probably my worst season for batting, but i saved the team this day. I put on 3 good partnerships and got 60, almost hit a six three times (ball bounced once over the line) and got our team to like 150 or something. Then we hammered the other team when we were bowling.

Oooh and my first game of that season, i took 4 wickets for 2 runs off 4 overs, but that was against the worst team in the league, so it wasn't THAT much of an achievement.





OOOHHH and one more tiny story, it was when i was a reeeeaaalllll young'n and when i was good at running. We were in a 100m relay with two guys and two girls. And i had to run last, and when i started the run we were coming last and one team was already 50m into the last run. I ran my ass off and beat the lot of them. i was soo happy, but then i stepped on a bee and it hurt, but i wa like 8 or 9 years old.



thinking for more stories, oh yeah i'll tell you the one i did in bowling its in the bowling thread aswell. Well I bowled it, it went in the air, hit the part that seperates the lanes, went into the lane next to me, and got a strike for that lane. OH YEAH

[Indiana Sev]

Floor Hockey

Back in high school once, we were having one of our inter-school hockey games. Anyway, the opposing team was minus a player and my team had an extra one that day. Now, I was regarded by most as a "cherrypicker" (a player who stands near the opposing team's zone and waits for the errant ball to go on a cheap breakaway) so my teammates betrayed me and voted me off to join the other team.:mad:

I was steamed!

So, as soon as I joined my new team I went to the face-off circle for the drop. As soon as the ball dropped it was ALL ME! I took immediate control of the ball and went on to deke all my former teammates (nobody even touched me) and continued on to the net, I easily beat the goalie and turned to see the stunned faces of my former and new teammates. This was all in one full sequence...just me. What a shaft! You should of seen the looks on those suckers faces. Trade me, will you?

Hee, hee. I should of retired right there.

What a way to end a career!:)

[quoth_the_raven]

hmmm i played cricket for the school back in the day and we came second that year. i am a fairly average player at best, so when we got our asses kicked in the final, i was just glad that i was in the final partnership that managed to avoid going out. :D

also, the school used to do a huge cross country race, that you had to participate in once a year. i manage to come within the top 20, somehow, and beat some of the best atheletes in the school easily. ok, so i was like 13th or something, but the fact that i was never much of an athlete compared to some i beat. that was kind of cool,.

more than once playing soccer with my friends, i scored some amazing goals. those were my favourite, those small personal triumphs :)

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

My personal favourite would be my player of the year awards at my youth football team Gregory Celtic. I won it three years in a row 1988-90. From the Under 11s- Under 13's. We were an awesome team until Under 17s...

Now I'm just a lazy bastard who has to rely on past glories.

[Grebdron]

Never won a championship in anything myself. But I was very proud to have coached my step-son's basketball team to back to back championships.

I was also very proud to have led my football league three seasons running in receptions, interceptions and touchdowns as a two way player.

My greatest catch was a fun one. It was in the first game I played in the flag football league. We were getting blown out, and had no chance of winning. On the final play, our quarterback threw the ball to the back corner of the end zone. I dove for it, and got the ball on my fingertips. When I hit the ground, the ball was dislodged, and flew into the air, coming to rest on my back. My face was in the dirt, and I looked up at the referee. He hadn't signaled an incomplete pass. So I reached up with both hands and placed them on the ball, on my back. TOUCHDOWN!!

We still lost by something like 21 points.

[RicochetShaw]

cool stories folks

I got a couple in basketball...
I played basketball in middle school, and once in 7th grade we were playing a decent team. Our school had a terrible athletics program, and our team was really bad. There was one kid, Reggie, who was absoultely brilliant, though . He had scored most of our points throughout the game (as he usually did), but we were still down by two points with like 10 seconds to go. Reggie brought dribbled it in to the top of they key and was immediately double-teamed, leaving me open on the 3-point line. He did a no look pass to me, and i threw it up, it went in!! It wasnt exactly the prettiest shot (went off the backboard), but it went in and we won the game, our first victory of the season (and one of our only ones).
Another time we were blowing out our competitor, and as a result the coach took out Reggie in fear of injury or something of the sort. That left me as the go-to-guy while he was out, and I got the ball every time for our first 6 possessions. Each time I shot a 3, and sunk every one of 'em. I racked up 18 points within 2-3 minutes, that was cool. The best part was that it was a home game, and every time i made a shot the crowd kept getting louder and louder. After the game the other team's coach shook my hand and said "nice shot," that felt nice.

[Puck Bond]

Ok...I have a few all from my days playing sports in England as a young lad.

First when I was 11-12 years old around 1990 I won the javelin throw for my age group! Each year we would have an athletics field day at the end of the summer term...everyone would compete in track and field type events in all 6 age levels of the school. Everyone's parents and family would come and have picnics etc. it was like a real big deal. Anyway I had a good arm...always have and I managed to win the the javelin throw(yes that sharp pole!) I remember because it was straight into a very strong wind for that day...anyway I wound up winning a sort of silver mug...almost like a beer stein...I still have it in my room has my name engraved on it etc.

One year I also won the billiards tournament...in England we don't play pool we play snooker and billiards...so Euro schmoes will know what I am talking about. Each year we would have tournaments for small sports and games, like chess, snooker, table tennis(ping pong) etc. and one year I won the billiards tournament. I still am a kick ass pool player today...used to win money from my friends all the time playing pool in high school and college.

I will always remember my last cricket match before I moved to California from England. Summer of 1992...it was my first and only year at a boy's public school called Charterhouse...some may have heard of it. Anyway we had all the sports teams etc. and there were different levels...ie the 1st Eleven, 2nd Eleven etc. That cricket season I managed to get onto the 1st Eleven, only because of my ace defense and solid bowling...I was never a good batter...never was before that. The season went along and I didn't really get much pub or playing time and eventually I was moved to the 2nd Eleven...same sort of thing and my final game I ended up with the 3rd Eleven. I remember that game because it was my final game...I wound up batting like 50 runs or so...took 4 wickets and made perhaps one of the most toughest and spectacular catches I've ever made. Also memorable because both my parents were there.

Also one of the years I played field hockey...we had a good team we always did...I was like 11 at the time and that year I scored a goal in each game we played.

My only real major sporting achievement since I've been here in California was when I shot a back 9 37 at Mountain view Golf links...its a place where I usually play golf...its memorable because my total score was 81 9 over par...my best ever round on a golf course. It's mostly memorable because on the 18th hole I chipped in from off and below a raised green for birdie to shoot that 37!

I'll also say my greatest other golfing moment was last summer playing golf with my uncle...and on a hot summer day we played 36 holes on two courses that were part of the same club...anyway we come to the final hole of the day...a 450 yard par 4...it was a little bit downhill and with the wind...Anyway I'm hella tired as it is but somehow I unleash a mammoth straight and the most purest drive I've ever hit. I had 90 yards left for my 2nd shot! I had hit a 360 yard drive! needless to say I botched the hole and made double-bogey 6!

I forget to mention I took Intermediate Bowling for one of my P.E. classes in college...anyway I used to go bowling in the student union for a while after that by myself...and that is where I bowled my high score of 225!

Memorable because of a Seinfeld quote, when George sells his dad's cabana clothes at Rudy's and the guy offers George $200 for them and George replies..."Can you make $225...that was his high game in bowling" :D So me and Frank Costanza share that in common...a high game in bowling!

[Adam J. Hakari]

Three home runs in a row in whiffleball. One of my proudest times, if I say so myself. :D

[Kastman]

another cricketing moment for me was:

When i got selected for this cou try week cricket tournament (which we eneded up losing every match and i was embarassingly crap at batting that week) but i was aweseom in the field and this was one moent i will never forget, unless i get like amnesia or something.

The cricketing schmoes will know how hard this is. I was standing at half pitch, althugh a little closer, and we had a spinner bowling, the batter charged down the wicket, smashed the ball off the middle of the bat and i caught it one handed from like 2-3 metres away. Bloody great feeling when that batter bowed his head in shame.

[Indiana Sev]

Originally posted by Kastman
The cricketing schmoes will know how hard this is.

Um, there is only one cricketing schmoe.;)

[bob]

My story is floor hockey, too...natch.


It was the championship game (:rolleyes: , but keep reading anyway). The way we played the game in my gym class, we had two thirty minute periods. In the first period, I was a forward. The guy who was our goalie was solid for a while, but eventually we were down 5-0. That was the score going into the second period. They put me in goal (odd choice, considering I've always played forward), and we won the game 6-5. I made 10 saves in the last half minute of the game, including one that hit my knee, then my mask, then the post.

[Kastman]

Originally posted by Indiana Sev
Um, there is only one cricketing schmoe.;)


And thats me, right.;) :D

[James Logan]

My one and only buzzer beater in an official competition basketball game. It was the winning shot, my 28th point of the game, and the end of a comeback from a 17 or 18 point deficit, and I hit it right after grabbing a spectacular offensive rebound, and I hit it right on the face of some asshole who had been insulting my mother all game long (one of those dicks who thinks trash talking is just spitting out stupid, disgusting insults). Go home, fucka.

[RicochetShaw]

Yesterday I scored a goal in soccer, then as tradition dictates I took off my shirt and ran like a wild man. It was glorious, glorious!

[Doc Holliday]

8th Grade year. I was the best pitcher on the team. We were Down to the last 3 games, and had to win 2 to win the city title. I pitched the first game. The team we played was in next to last place. I went through thier lineup like Randy Johnson on crack. No one could touch me. I struck out 16 of their schmucks, and pitched a no hitter. The first of my life.

We lost the next game by 2 runs. That meant the last game was for the title. This sounds corny and made up, but we were playing the team we were tied with. Who ever won, won the title. I pitched another game of my life. This time I gave up one hit, but it should have been caught. It was the 6th inning and the coach put in one of our chump players, a big fat kid. He let one drop right ni front of his feet. Any other kid on the team, and it would have been an easy out. Didn't matter, it was the only hit they got. I struck out 14, and even went 3 for 4 at the plate with 3 runs batted.

[Gametime]

Well this actually happened to me this year.

Ive won championships before but never got a game winner. So this was in a a playoff to see who would get to the championship. My team was down 22 points in the 4th quarter and we came back and brought it down to 2with10sconds left coach took me from the point guard position(for doc i did really play point)and put me at shooting gurad for my three point shot. The point guard at the time drove to the whole kicked it out to me and i drained a three to win the game and we went on to win the championship in 2 ots later that week

[Doc Holliday]

Originally posted by Gametime
Well this actually happened to me this year.

Ive won championships before but never got a game winner. So this was in a a playoff to see who would get to the championship. My team was down 22 points in the 4th quarter and we came back and brought it down to 2with10sconds left coach took me from the point guard position(for doc i did really play point)and put me at shooting gurad for my three point shot. The point guard at the time drove to the whole kicked it out to me and i drained a three to win the game and we went on to win the championship in 2 ots later that week

Maybe the Lakes need to give you a shot. They could've used you in game 5. Horry blew it! :D :D

[Gametime]

Ha Ha very funny dont worry after baseball youll be giving me a free lunch doc.

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by Doc Holliday
Maybe the Lakes need to give you a shot. They could've used you in game 5. Horry blew it! :D :D

Easy there, Tiger.;)

Horry had a bad playoff season, and regular season, but how many of those shots has he hit? I didn't mind the ball in his hands in that situation. This one didn't fall.

I find it very hard to trash the Lakers right now. They won three in a row for us. That's pretty damned good.