Saturday, January 13, 2024
I send my condolences. I have very many memories of Beef from when we were children. I was five years older than Beef, but because of the small neighborhood, kids of all ages played together. Such as when the playground had a baseball team in the summer playground league and we needed players. We on the 11- 12 year old league needed younger players to fill out the roster. I remember that Beef played third base for that team and he was only 7. He was the youngest player on the team and in the playground league.
I would have come today, but I am home recuperating from Covid, Nick Sauter, Frank White and Bill Sakas asked me to bring my condolences when I went today, but I tested positive for the Covid Virus just this last week.
Beefy was always hanging out with the older kids and we all were very, very fond of him. He always wanted to play with us in sports on the playground and we almost always let hime play. The one day Nick and I were waiting all day to play wiffle ball over by the fence and small blacktop in the Riverview Park. We got off the bus, quick changed and started. Jimmy kept saying Nick, Joe please let me play. We said no about 30 times and he kept asking. So we finally said that he could play if he let us call him Beefy Talbot. This was the name of a catcher in a baseball story we read in 7th grade reading class that day. That is how Beefy got his main nic name, " Beefy". I thought you might want to know how he got that nic name. We the "Riverview Rats" will always fondly remember Beefy or "The Beef" as he was know in Riverview Park. He surely was a legend in that park. Love Joe Beltramba and the neighborhood kids known as the Riverview Rats.
