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The off-season disappeared and yet seemed to last forever all at the same time.
Homecoming was quite the interesting night as Beth and I got the most interesting looks from the crowd. IHS once again just had the one blemish in district, the Brahmas again, the Dodgers of high school football. The homecoming game was a 26-9 victory over the winless Bobcats. Beth was stunning in her red dress. I think some of her male classmates were seeing that side of her for the first time ever. A couple of them even came up to me and asked if they could dance with her. Which was funny. What was funnier was I never had to answer them because she immediately turned them down. They should have known by now that Beth was not going to be told who she could and couldn't dance with by some guy. Even if that guy was a professional baseball player.
I lost a bet to my Dad about the Super Bowl. My dad was an NFL/NFC guy. Just to be contrary, I took the Patriots against the Bears. Boy was that ugly!
Beth and I started casual dating. The facts I would be leaving and she was still a high school senior kept things from getting serious.
I turned 19 a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl. Just a few family friends and, of course, Beth were there. We went out and saw Rocky 4. Rocky music made me ready for the season to start.
I took Beth out to dinner for her 18th birthday.
During the off-season, I continued to throw every day. Sometimes on my own and some times I could get Coach Cummings to work with me when he wasn't working with the IHS school. Along with coaching, he also taught shop.
Speaking of Beth, she got her volleyball scholarship. The IHS volleyball had won district and advanced two playoff rounds before running into a juggernaut from Crandall High School. She got a scholarship to Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.
Soon, it was back to Reno for the 1986 California League Baseball Season!
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