It would be hard to tell the story about Rick Nester and his Softball program without Crooked Oak being part of the story! Rick at the Crooked Oak is similar to Norm walking into Sam’s Bar on the old sitcom, Cheers 🍻.
Everyone would love to have a place that they feel they belong and that is Rick’s slice of Heaven. It’s fitting that it sits halfway between Laurel Fork and The Hill, the two places that are near and dear to him for his entire life.
Multi tasking in that Rick is one of the folks that contributed to our recent High Jump project and he did so at a level that earned him some golf ⛳ and a copy of our Basketball 🏀 book 📖.
Switching from Book #3 over to Book #4, we were able to spend just over ninety minutes recapping the four separate one hour conversations that took place the day before. The highlight for me was I had a couple of tidbits that I had picked up that Rick wasn’t aware of himself!
Ron Cochran, Darrin Mathews, Justin Quesenberry and Dave Quesenberry all proved to be enlightening. The challenge now will be to process the entire conversion and pick out what warrants making it into the Book 📖.
Darrin Mathews compared the intensity and desire of Cheyenne to that of Coach Nester. Let that sink in, especially for the folks that are close to Rick.
Dave Quesenberry shed some light on first being a pitching coach for Sydney Nester when she was eight years old and then resuming the role when she reached the High School level. One classic tale what something right out of Bull Durham as Dave walked through one of the rare times he needed to visit the Freshman on the mound.
” Syd, I am getting hungry and Tammy’s making dinner for me, so we just get this done?”
Another one was, “Hey, there’s an ice cold Dr Pepper in that cooler over there, its yours if you just finish this”.
Having fun with this and trying hard to not have it feel like a Homework assignment to anyone else, but the story is coming along quite nicely so far.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 