Merle Haggard artist rendition

Octavio Diaz, Miami Herald Staff, May 2, 1982

 Debbie Davis/Eugene Moles 1/77

 Babe Ruth to Yanks

 

I enjoyed my Truetone portable 4-speed (45, 78, 33, 16 RPM) record player with aqua trim and gray velvet turntable. To add a touch to its styling theme of portability, it had a suitcase type lid latch. I never took it anywhere, however, preferring to listen sitting cross-legged with it on my bedroom floor. It was a used, inexpensive, lightweight player. Inexpensive even when it was new. When it's all you had and all you knew (pre-stereo), and what you listened to day in and day out, the quality of the sound coming from it was just fine.

SABR'S annual literary baseball book -- Turnstyle --  I  contributed two poems and an essay. Lucky me.            

 12/29/1929

HUDSON-MARTIN

 KRIS BLACK

May 01, 1974, Page 63, Bakersfield Californian