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House of L podcast

What Jackie Robinson West Did For Me

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

Sports, History

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Laurence had an emotional homecoming at Jackie Robinson West Park this weekend. He discusses the impact that youth sports can have throughout a life.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the House of L podcast, I am Lawrence Holmes, thanks so much for hanging out

0:23.0

here with me, I appreciate it.

0:27.3

As per usual, we are brought to you by Aurelio's Pizza, the finest pizza in the land.

0:37.1

Go to Aurelio's Pizza.com, find a location near you.

0:43.2

I do always make the suggestion that you should go to the homewood location at least once

0:49.0

in your life, so you can get pizza out of the old oven, I'm thinking a lot about Homewood

0:55.7

lately.

0:56.7

It's been interesting, this was a real going home type weekend for me, and it's funny

1:08.6

because I actually don't consider Homewood my home, it's very strange.

1:18.2

But I'll get to that in a second, it was a homecoming week because I'm working on a project

1:26.0

of which I cannot tell you more about for now.

1:31.5

But I will tell you that the project is taking me to a couple of ball parks, and it was

1:37.3

fun to go and be at the amateur city elite program over at 35th and shields and see some of

1:47.3

the kids and I was laughing because one of those kids told me that I was old.

1:52.1

He didn't say it in so many words, but he said it when I explained to him that he and I both

1:55.6

went to HF and I graduated in 1993 and he was like, what's that?

2:00.2

What's he here that starts with 19?

2:03.4

Anyway, this week the project led me over to Jackie Robinson West Park and that was really

2:14.3

dope and more emotional than I expected it to be.

2:20.4

I grew up, if you don't know, if you're new to the podcast, I went to high school in

2:26.4

Plasma, I went to Homewood Plasma High School, that wasn't necessarily going to be the

2:32.7

choice.

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