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Here’s an early photo of Gee himself ….probably 1962 or 1963. Where was the photograph taken?

Where else?

Verdugo!!!!

Thats right. Here we see Gee explaining to his Mom that one day he’s going to have his own baseball team and that it would be called Verdugo!!!! I had been staking out territories for weeks if I remember correctly.

I looked around Verdugo Park when we arrived and shortly thereafter came to the conclusion that this was going to be the future home field of Verdugo.

I was pretty fired up when I found this place. Stengel Field was there and I thought this would be a great spot for our Team to BBQ some hot dogs after sweeping Glendale.

As you can see in the picture I was ready to get started immediately. I was ready to start recruiting the players, and lining everything up. I had uniforms to design and lots of phone calls to make!

But ohhhh no….

While my Mom admittedly was impressed with my “vision” she brought down the hammer pretty quick….

“That sounds really great and everything”…..she told me “but we need to go home now….so you’re going to have to wait about 30 years for this big dream of yours to come true”

You may or may not be able to hear it all….so headphones or earbuds.

Last game of the season. Newhall-Saugus (a team we were 5-0 career against and all five games were played at THEIR YARD)

Anyways….Hack on the mound in relief as we cling to a 4-3 lead.

He hits one of their batters with a pitch….

And just LISTEN to the barrage of verbal abuse from the Verdugo fans when he throws his bat ….all enraged he got hit with a pitch!!!

So brutal he looked back at them and acknowledged!!!!

Our fans totally OWNED this guy!!!!

Verdugo!!!!

The Greatest Players who played in the greatest games!!!!

And the greatest fans EVER!!!!