Hello Guys my name is Jerry Whitson. I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1947.
I was a sports nut growing up playing everything.
My favorite sport was basketball and in later life I became a
College and High School Basketball official for 25 years.

I have been playing APBA from 1963 and I started out on the boards
as you old times will know by the year I started playing APBA..
I first started out with APBA Football, then moved to the Baseball
and after that tired the Basketball APBA had out at that time.
APBA Baseball turned out to be my love
even though I had love to take part in Basketball in real life.

I got married out of High School and went right on to the New Orleans Fire Department.
I had one son out of that marriage, Wayne who was born in 1970.
I retired from the New Orleans Fire Department in 1979
and had been in the bar business while I was on the Department.
So then I bought my own lounge and had live entertainment
way down yonder in New Orleans,
yes it was the good life.

After my divorces with my second wife it was time to move on and start all over with a new life.
I then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989
where I went to work for Otis Elevator Company.
I got hurt on that job with a fall and was operated 2 times as of now for that injury.
I was then put on pension and haven't worked from 1994
and I love every day of it now.

I had moved back to New Orleans after the operations
and moved into the swamps in the bayous of Louisiana.
I felt I would rather deal with the animals there in the swamps then the ones in the streets,
they could kill you too but at least the animals in the swamps didn't carry guns
and if you left them alone they would leave you alone
After living there for about 2 years and then decided I wanted to get back where there were some people.

So I moved to Altus, Oklahoma where I could live on my 2 pensions fairly well.
This is just a little town in the south west part of the state.
If it wouldn't be for an Air Force Base here it wouldn't be here.
I have gotten my third pension and I'm looking into making another move
and this time its off to Belize or Costa Rica
to lay on the beach, drink tropical drinks and chase the native girls.


I have just moved back home to New Orleans as I have gotten my third pension and was missing family, friends, food and places to go and things to do at home. It cost me a lot more to live here, but I'll just bit that bullet for now and try to find some place close to home cheaper until I decide where I'm really going to retire too.

After Katrina hit the Gulf Coast at the end of August it has caused me to move one more time. I had a few different places I had in mind to move to and spend the rest of my life. I hate to move away from my home for good as the last 20 years I have used that time to move around the country to see different places and things, with the idea that I would return home at some point in time. Well with this last storm I now know I won't live in New Orleans ever again. I have had a friend for over 16 years in Seattle Washington trying to get me to move up here near her. She contacted me after the hurricane offering to help me and give me a place to stay for as long as I would need one. To make the trip to Seattle it was over 2700 miles and would take me 3 very long days to get there. With that in mind and my car loaded, I decide this will be the place that I would move to and settle for the balance of my life. I now have my own apartment again in Everett, Washington, about 30 miles north of Seattle. I'm going to miss my family and friends from back home, but I'm just getting to old to keep on making all of these moves in life. I hope this is the last one I will have to make and it looks like this is the right choice for me at this time.

Now that I'm on pension I have all the time in the world to put to my love of APBA.
I have made some new friends in APBA and I love to draft and wheel and deal.
I think that this was more fun than playing the game against a micromanager.
RMSL was the first time that I have ever played in a salary league and I look forward to wearing that GM hat
I'm sure all of us at one time or other thought we could do a better job than some of these GM in MLB
and now I get my chance to see what I can do as a GM. And that league went over so well and I enjoy it so much I have now decided to start another salary league, NOSL, New Orleans Salary League.
The only way to play APBA is live against a friend and  I hope in time more owners will play live
just as we did in the old days when you had your buddy across the kitchen table playing APBA.