Christmas 1967
These were my best friends in High school
Paul and Merle Hogan, Me and Dee Aiello
Big guy is Billy Bach my very best friend
he died of Hodgkins disease at 28
Billy and I always competed against each other in sports. We actually hated each other for many years cause we were always on different teams and we were both so competitive. The one summer we were playing baseball and he was on third and I threw a wild pitch and he came running home with the winning run and I was so mad I came running in to cover the plate and purposely ran into him sending him flying. Yes, we had a brief fight. I sure am glad there were a lot of people around to break it up :-). Two days late I was at a party and saw a friend from where I worked he asked me if I wanted to go with him to another part. To my surprise Billy was one of his friends who was in the car also. We became good friends that night that lasted till he died in the late 70's. Billy was one of the truly great guys. He was all everything in football at Mamaroneck HS, then went on to play football at the University of Maryland.