Banquet Highlights the Inaugural Sue Gunter Classic
BOB STARKEY (12-17-09):
Looking back on the first Sue Gunter Classic, one of the best memories I have is of the banquet. First and foremost, many thanks to Brittany Carvalhido and her managers for the countless hours in putting it together. It was special to see Skip Bertman, one of Coach Gunter's favorites attending and I had a chance to talk to Skip and hear some of his favorite Coach Gunter stories. Patrick Wright did a wonderful job as MC and share will all of us some his favorite Coach Gunter tales. A major highlight of the banquet was listening to Hall of Fame Doris Rogers who not only was a friend of Coach Gunters but a teammate at Nashville Business College. I learned two new things about Coach Gunter during Doris talk. The first was that she was an outstanding softball player. She batted second in the order and her role was to bunt the lead-off hitter over. And, in the true Coach Gunter fashion, she learned the skill to perfection. The other story that I first learned was that the night before she past, she told a friend of hers at the house, "to make some extra coffee for the morning because there will be a lot of people here." Even in passing Coach Gunter was taking care of us!