Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Newspaper Names Jim Kirk All Time First Baseman at High School

On Friday, September 4th, Harlan High School located in Harlan, Kentucky celebrated its 100 year anniversary. As part of its festivities, the local newspaper, the Harlan Daily Enterprise named its All-Time Harlan High School sports teams in football, basketball and baseball.

I was extremely flattered to be selected at first base for this unexpected honor. The entire selected team with graduation years and positions are below.

1B - Jim Kirk - 1988
2B - Eric Browning - 1996
SS - Dickie Parsons - 1957
3B - Sean Kirklin - 1987
C - Tommy Ward - 1948
RF - Bucket Lequire - 1950
CF - Bob Muse - 1968
LF - Bob Anderson - 1958
DH - Chris Goss - 1998
P - Jim Ed Gibson - 1965
P - Wah Wah Jones - 1945
P - Bobby Brown - 1958
P - Jack Ledford - 1959
P - Charlie Rutledge - 1995
P - John Smith - 2007
P - Cotton Robinson - 1950
P - Lawson Howard - 1998
P - Patrick Ball - 2007

2 comments:

Arik said...

Congrats Jim. Only thing that would make it better is if you had a rock'n nickname like Wah Wah, Bucket or Cotton.

Something you might want to consider working on.

Jim Kirk said...

Good advice Arik. I did have the nickname Captain in high school, but that's not as cool as those others, I certainly agree. Thanks... was a nice unexpected honor.