Snapper Lore Interlude

(♫ Cue the spooky music, black light strobe and smoke machine)
Down, down in the deep, dark recesses of a mid-Michigan cellar – tucked against the cold and clamy cement foundation wall – a large cardboard box sits in inconspicuous obscurity. Inside the box are repurposed expandable accordion-style legal folders stuffed with papers. No, these are not the dead sea scrolls, and I am not an archeologist. I am a golf league transcriber known as DaBlade, and this… is Snapper Lore.

Reminder that there is no golf today, Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 in early celebration of our nation’s Independence Day. Cousin Mike is still incredulous that there is no golf the day before this holiday, when point of fact we did actually GOLF on Juneteenth. In any event, I thought a short trip down memory lane was in order for this off week.

Back in the beginning in 1988, the golf sheets were hand-written then xerox’d and passed out. Here is page 1 final standings sheet from 1989… (there ya go Chuck)

I might have a sheet from year one, but these pages aren’t exactly in order. Here are a couple more historical documents that have left indelible marks on the league…

We will leave it there for now. I will post more in the future, assuming that father time doesn’t completely disintegrate the remaining lore. We did eventually go digital (i forget the year) but here are a couple snapshots of early website pages…

State of the art stuff! Here is a later version complete with now broken links (from 2015 I think?)

That’s it for now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

GO SNAPPERS!