Welcome to the home page of one Steve Johnson,

The Recliner Sports Association is here. Check out all three affiliates - Baseball 2009 by ESPN, 2008 Baseball, and Football.

Of course, see pages on the Nokomis girls' basketball team and their back-to-back titles in

1998-99and 1997-98. Also, check out the IHSA's take on the Elite Eight. How about the annual January Highland Tournament

Peruse the Nokomis boys' basketball stats. NHS Football stats are on as well.

We have several with Nokomis connections in the coll ege and professional sports ranks. See my Sports page for more on Molly McDowell, Kris Detmers and Mick Fieldbinder, who now is the pitching coach for Samford University.

Also, Ryan O'Malley is currently pitching for the Class AA Birmingham Barons in the Chicago White Sox organization.
Ryan threw 8 shutout innings in beating the Houston Astros 1-0 in his Major League debut for the Cubs in August 2006. Game story Box score

A lot of Sports links

Stormy or snowy, it's weather stuff

My friends, my resume and other info

Check out my hometown of Nokomis

Please note the Bottomley-Ruffing-Schalk Baseball Museum in Nokomis. Check out the museum as it appeared in February 2005 on WILL-TV Urbana. It is a museum dedicated to all professional baseball players in central Illinois, with the namesakes all Baseball Hall of Famers who lived in or near the Nokomis area - Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Cardinals, Red Ruffing of the New York Yankees and Ray Schalk of the Chicago White Sox. Those three are each members of Sports Illustrated's 50 Greatest Athletes of Illinois in the 20th Century! Bottomley and Ruffing give Nokomis two of the 50 with Schalk listed from Litchfield. Add Butler's Harold Osborn, Olympic champion, and Montgomery County houses 8 percent of the top athletes! Nokomis was one of five cities with more than one athlete chosen (Chicago 24, East St. Louis 4, Batavia 2 and Champaign 2). .

Pondering thought:

"Something that everyone knows isn't worth knowing"

Last updated March 4, 2010