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WALKER, from 6
Talking with Jim, he told me that everybody who knew his dad knew it was never a half effort with anything he was part of. Joe was not happy with the practice arrangements being afforded him and his team. Looking out the back door of his house here in Lancaster, the wheels started turning and before long, volunteers and family members were hard at work building a full-sized baseball diamond
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Joe Walker in an official photograph.
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Yes, Joe Walker was a pretty cool guy, and the community em-
braced him and his family. For even with all that ‘test pilot’ swagger, deep down inside he was just the guy we all wanted to call friend. In every picture you see of Joe, his mandatory smile is always present.
in his back yard! With backstop in place, an irrigation system went in, grass was growing, and Lancaster had its own version of the “Field Of Dreams!” The only problem, it seemed, was that young Jim Walker was the one that inherited the weekly chore of mowing that field. Being that it was on an acre of land, Joe’s love for his team and the game ended up being a certain amount of grief to Jim, as he never had a hankering to be a groundskeeper!
Fate would intervene in Jim’s life when his Dad’s fame came to the rescue. During a June 4, 1961, appearance on the television show “This Is your Life,” Joe received as one of his gifts a riding lawn mower! So, like Forrest Gump mowing the endless miles of grass every week, you would see Jim out on the diamond sitting proudly atop his new toy, glad that the days of the push mower were a thing of the past! But like all cool things, even that became a chore and the end of baseball season was always welcomed -- until Joe and his kids discovered the field was also a pretty good place to practice football! At least in winter it didn’t require the same
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Joe Walker, the sports fan, with his sons.
Joe Walker, NASA test pilot.
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