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Bring your favorite color photograph or art work (No larger than 8'/2 x 11) and get instant copies! Come to us for your typing and word processing needs, too. Our H-P® laser printer is perfect for resumes. ON THE DOUBLE Northgate 846-3755 (above Farmer’s Market) M-F Tam-lOpm Sat. 9-6 Sun. 1-6 Page 8/The BattalionAThursday, October 23,1986 Olsen provides glimpse into baseball’s pasi By Doug Hall Sports Writer In one dinner conversation with C.E. “Pat” Olsen, Class of ’23, I learned more about sports trivia and Aggie facts than I could if I had played Trivial Pursuit or Hullaballo for the past four years. Talking with Olsen is like walking backward through time. Our conversation started with the 1960s with the Aggies’ 1968 Cotton Bowl win and continued from there. The 1940s and 1950s passed in a hurry, barely stopping on names like John David Crow, Bear Bryant, Jack Pardee and places like Junction. The 1930s took me through a dif ferent era of baseball. One where players would slide into second base with spikes slashing, baserunners would steal home on a head-First slide and bench-clearing brawls were more common than chewing to bacco. And finally we came to the 1920s. He spoke of the 1927 Yankees with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and of players like Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb. Then he changed the sub ject to football and E. King Gill and the 12th Man, Coach Dana X. Bible and the Aggies’ first Cotton Bowl victory over Centre College. He had been there. He had seen it all. Olsen is a former professional baseball player, businessman, entre preneur, and the namesake for A&M’s baseball stadium. I had a once-in-a-lifetime experi ence to eat with Olsen recently when he and his wife Elsie celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary in the dining hall named for Mrs. Olsen’s father, W.A. Duncan. As I approached the table where the Olsens were seated, I first no ticed the hearing aid in his right ear, the thick glasses and the gray hair. His firm handshake and clear voice, however, assured me that it was going to be an interesting evening. Olsen said that when he left A&M, he promised himself and others that he would only play four years of baseball and then go into the busi ness world. “You never know about them in juries,” he said. “But hell, with the health I’ve had, I could have played into my forties.” Today, Olsen is still active in base ball. He has season tickets with the Houston Astros, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. He has attended almost 300 World Series games and countless numbers of All-Star games and Hall of Fame inductions. Olsen saw Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956, discussed business with Ty Cobb and went to games with Tris Speaker. He’s shaken hands with presi dents, warmed up to pitch a game against Walter Johnson (“by the time we were ready to play, it was raining like the dickens”) and even signed a professional contract with the Rang ers when he was past his 80th birth day. Olsen said several years ago the Federal Aviation Administration passed a rule stating that only those directly related with the American League could fly on its charter plane to attend postseason games. Since he and his wife were long-time partici pants on this flight, the owner of the Rangers signed him to a contract so he could continue living with the league. “There I was, over 80 years old and signing a professional contract,” Olsen chuckled. “Imagine that.” Through all of this, Olsen consid ers one of his greatest thrills throw ing out the baseball to open the 1984 World Series. At that game, his spe cial guest was Babe Ruth's daughter. The same daughter, Olsen said, that used to play on his lap as a child many years ago. When the conversation switched to football, 1 asked Olsen if he went to this year’s Cotton Bowl. “Oh yes,” he said. “But you know I was at the first Cotton Bowl when preseason year conti rjounced A I Peterse pounds a Khird tos backup rc: son and ^ Towers gaa I Peterse i son with every gan» 6.2 points an averae Mil, ider the age oi Dime, oeiore giving other two to concentrate on b For Olsen, however, a only the starting point who has lived under a simple honest code that has carried through a highly successful career. Olsen said he ran his oi business, Gearench Mfg. ( me. He had twice last high 16 ■ against Ut i Terms were not a_ He ret wo r epez out of the Rockets pr two prese against Ph. La., and S- against the The Boot Barn Quality for Less “The original discount boot store with true discout prices.” Brown, Grey, Cloud Grey, Cloud Blue, Burgundy, Navy, Taupe, Pink, Red. 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