Ode to Father’s Day
Our annual Father’s Day project is complete, and it’s one of my favorite things we do all year. A two-page spread with local athletes and coaches and personalities talking about their dads.
My favorite element is the photos. They all are home photos; we took none of them. The photo of Gerald McCoy, smiling wide with his dad. U.S. Grant soccer player Lori O’Neil making a silly face while her dad grins in the background. Chickasha baseball player Kennedy Winn at what must be the age of four, sitting with his dad. Al Eschbach lounging by the pool with his dad.
This is our 10th year for the Father’s Day project, and what what I like is how athletes will call us, wanting to be included. Tulsa U. basketball player Kara Vaughan and Tulsa U. softball player Lauren Lindsay contacted us this year; it makes for a great Father’s Day surprise.
This will be a different Father’s Day for me and my brothers. It’s our first without our dad, who died last August. Father’s Day always has meant going to church in Purcell with Mom and Dad, eating well and then watching the U.S. Open on Sunday afternoon.
But this will be a good Father’s Day. I had a wonderful dad for 46-plus years; I’ve got some great memories. Read the sports page today, and you’ll know I’m not the only one.
-------------Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel. Visit Berry's website here.
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I lost my dad in 1995, but I have some great memoriesof him. One that stands out to me today is taking a train from Bartlesville to Kansas City to see the Athletics play( this was before the Royals were born). The train was a party all the way there, and I slewpt back. What a great Day.