Windsor Tomcats

Some Tomcat History Ruined by Harry Ballsonue

 Stevo, Killer, Bearcat, Crispy, Top of Timmy Timmy Cocoa Puffs, and Bulldog

A picture paints a thousand words, you can see the water damage (Flood at the Stevo’s House) of a team of the Windsor Tomcat wearing red Windsor Tomcat tee shirts.

“It’s very unfortunate”, stated Stevo, when he first saw the photos after the flood at his home, where photos and St. Felix’s went under water.

We are learning that 22 inches of water, in the lower level of Stevo’s St. Clair Beach home, penetrated the third shelf of a filing cabinet where Stevo kept all original and copies of the St. Felix. “Not for a moment did I ever think we would ever get so much water, I felt the third shelf was a safe place, obviously I dropped the ball, and the St Felix’s got wet”. a somber Stevo indicated.
The Windsor Tomcats are indicating that not all is lost, about 220-320 photos were in a plastic container and were placed on a couch that only saw the bottom of the futon get wet so those pictures, which include the ‘posed’ photos of each Tomcat wearing their black “Tomcats’ jersey were all still fine. There were also golf photos and  tournament photos in that particular bin that was kept dry.

“Where I also really dropped the ball, is that over the years, I had put individual team, photos for example the flying cooler lids mixed in with my family photos, and these photos toppled into the water even though they were in large bins” an aggravated Stevo stated.

Small photo albums like these can still be somewhat saved and the Tomcats are hoping for continued sun so that can be done.

Some of those photos are ruined but some are not, we are learning today that the plan is to dry them out and then to place them in a ‘Tomcat’ Bin for continued safe keeping.

There are also photos of Battle Creek Golf trips that are being saved as well and will be placed in a separate Tomcat-Battle Creek trip bin.

The only saving grace here, is that the photos that have been somewhat ruined are from the early “Red Jersey Tomcat Days” and that the newest and latest jersey pictures are still intact. 

 Photos such as this one of the Hurricane will try to be saved, the good part is that these photos (In the Red Tomcat Jersey) were also all photo copied and those still remain in tact.

“Not all photos will be lost, I will see what we can save,” stated a positive thinking Stevo, but then added, “As far as the St. Felix’s, well that is a different story, the dryer they get, the harder it will be to separate, I will try to do my best and we’ll start separating them as soon as I have space to do so, with water logged cabinets, and book shelfs and my desk in the garage, there is not a lot of room, but once we make some room I will start the process”. concluded Stevo.

All the St. Felix’s separate page to page, would probably cover the entire Kapusta Kow floor, so it is a daunting task and Stevo said he would keep us appraised of the progress.

“It is a sad day in Tomcat land”, stated Sunny, “yes, they were early photos, that went into the water, but it is still a party of Tomcat history and you never want to see Tomcat History damaged or ruined”. Concluded Sunny.

In the mean time, as you look at the ruined pictures of Bulldog, The Rake and the Hurricane, do you think I could put my Harry Ballsonue.