Baseball and fishing...

[Mugwump]

...have much in common....

http://youtu.be/U7MiPagrXzA

[BillT]

Ted wrote an awesome book on hitting:
The Science of Hitting.
Read it when I was young. Physics, hitting, and psychology.

[BallAquatics]

Remember when it seemed like everything Sears sold was endorsed by Ted Williams???  I've got an ancient 22 rifle from Sears that was a Ted Williams...

Dennis

[PaulineMi]

Here's a link to a short piece on the book Bill referenced....

http://regressing.deadspin.com/the-beautiful-infographics-of-ted-williamss-the-scienc-1511889371

Am watching Red Wings hockey while writing this.   

Detroit won in OT   

[Mugwump]

He's the last player to hit .400.....  .344 lifetime.....what a sweet swing...

[Ron Sower]

I had a Ted Williams baseball glove from Sears that I got one year for Christmas. Our family was a true Sears shopping family.

[Mugwump]

J C Higgins 12ga pump shotgun..Red Rider BB guns..American flyer wagons/sleds....Erector sets....Chemistry sets...Lincoln logs...Cowboy/Indian figures with a Calvary Ft....Army figures with little jeeps/tanks/artillery/etc... and, of course, lots of clothes...LOL

[Ron Sower]

Yep, but you left out Silvertone TV & radio, and very important...Craftsman tools! Dad swore by those! Guaranteed for life.

[Mugwump]

Yep, but you left out Silvertone TV & radio, and very important...Craftsman tools! Dad swore by those! Guaranteed for life.

Naw...Craftsman tools are a given, and quite possibly the only thing that they're known for now days....??

There were also, Montgomery Wards and Spiegel catalogs,  J.C. Penney, FAO Schwartz.....

[Ron Sower]

Yep, but you left out Silvertone TV & radio, and very important...Craftsman tools! Dad swore by those! Guaranteed for life.

Naw...Craftsman tools are a given, and quite possibly the only thing that they're known for now days....??

There were also, Montgomery Wards and Spiegel catalogs,  J.C. Penney, FAO Schwartz.....

Agreed!    It's a shame, though, that Sears lost it market.  But all things go through a rise and fall. Some even several cycles....

[PaulineMi]

My first real job while still in high school was in the candy department at Sears.  Remember when they had a soda fountain too? 

[Mugwump]

My first real job while still in high school was in the candy department at Sears.  Remember when they had a soda fountain too?

Yep, our's out by 'Oak Brook Mall' still has the hot cashew vendor selling the fresh hot bags too.....

My Grandmother took us to Woolworth's  'five and dime'....we got cherry phosphates...MMmmm

[PaulineMi]

I used to dump raw cashews into the hot oil.  Of course I also got to eat the super fresh, piping hot cashews too. 

I also remember Woolworth's.  Dime stores with creaking wooden floors.....some even had upper and lower levels.

[BallAquatics]

Our Sears store was what they called a "farm store".  It was basically just the depot where you picked up your mail order stuff as they had very few items for retail sale.

Woolworth, Grants, and Kresge's were something else entirely.  My love of the aquatic hobby was born and nurtured in the pet departments at both Grants & Woolworth.  That was back before plastic bags so everything was placed into water-proof Chinese carry-out type boxes with handles.

Dennis

[Mugwump]

Our Sears store was what they called a "farm store".  It was basically just the depot where you picked up your mail order stuff as they had very few items for retail sale.

Woolworth, Grants, and Kresge's were something else entirely.  My love of the aquatic hobby was born and nurtured in the pet departments at both Grants & Woolworth.  That was back before plastic bags so everything was placed into water-proof Chinese carry-out type boxes with handles.

Dennis

I'd almost forgot about those things...    I remember our Woolworths was the first area store to have something other than goldfish too, Sword/platy/mollie ??....those goldfish we could win at the carnivals...