It's built — a full length basketball court at the Maysville-Mason County Recreation Park — will they come?
You don't see kids or teens playing basketball on outdoor courts like you used to.
Back in the day, competitive games were played at Jack Condon's court in the alley behind his house on Walnut Street, at Rotary Park (on a court that no longer exists), on the St. Patrick playground, at the goals at the corner of Wall and Third streets and at the Aberdeen Community Park to name a few locations.
"In order to keep playing on the court, you had to win or you had to go sit," former St. Patrick High School and University of Toledo star Jay Gast remembered. "You might sit for two or three cycles of games before you got a chance to play again."
The late Gerry Calvert, a star player at Maysville High School and the University of Kentucky, told me he honed his skills playing against athletes from St. Patrick High School and Fee High School on St. Patrick playground goals.
When I tweeted photos of the new court this morning, Mason County assistant coach and 10th Region Hall of Famer Robert Myrick replied: "Nice! Hopefully kids will get out and play on that nice court."
I hope they do, too.
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