This is a photo of Class D Baseball team that was loaded with Vikes.  Frank Sodnicar says that this is the team that St. Joe's would have fielded that year if it had a baseball team.  In the first row are Hank Zolakar, Bob Cozart, Terry Thomas, Ronald Tulaukas, and Bob Ross.  In the second row are Jim Prib, Joe Vercan, Dennis Susnik, and Frank Sodnicar.  This team won quite a few games!

The following story also appears in the 'In Memory of II' gallery:

Frank Sodnicar recalls this great story: 'The team was pretty loaded with guys like Hank Zalokar, Bob Ross, Bob Cozart, Jim Prib, and maybe even myself.  Dennis Susnik was a pitcher who could go two innings but no more because he had a big slow curve ball that just messed up both left- and right-handed hitters.  However, after two innings the outfield needed to be ready to run, because the opposition generally figured out Dennis’s curve, and they would kill it.  Hank Zalokar was a horse, and when he connected, look out!  We had some other good hitters on both sides of the plate.  Hank had drilled a long one, and the next two batters (I think myself and Bob Ross) got decked.  I’m not sure if the pitcher was throwing at us on purpose or not, but Bob and I survived to get on base with walks.  Next up was Jim Prib. The first pitch came in, and somehow the bat sailed over the pitcher’s head.  The umpire called for the bat.  It turned out that Jim had some how gotten a Little League bat and let it fly towards the pitcher on that first offering.  Jim was ejected, but there were no more brushback pitches that day, or whenever we played other teams.  It seemed that the word got around not to mess with us.
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