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Keizer kids pay tribute to their biggest fan
snacks and refreshments for
anyone that needed them.
“Most of the time his paper
was covered in hash marks and
initials, and if you didn’t know
what or where he had been,
you would probably wouldn’t
be able to decipher what he
was doing, or what it all meant.
Don’t be fooled or mistaken, he
knew the inning, the score, the
lineup, who hit, who ground-
ed out, who scored, who fl ew
out, who singled, doubled, or
tripled, and he certainly knew
who committed an error,” said
Keizer baseball mom Tammy
Ready. “His snack bag was al-
ways full, and he was always
willing to share. As a matter of
fact, he loved and lived for it.”
Aicher was diagnosed with
cancer a couple of years ago.
At fi rst, it rarely stopped him
from attending games. But as
his condition continued to de-
teriorate, people close to Aic-
her knew that he wouldn’t be
around for much longer.
With the COVID-19 pan-
demic cancelling spring sports,
Aicher was unable to watch
the game that he loved during
his fi nal days, which is why
Jake Martin, whose son, Ethan,
plays for McNary, decided to
organize a pick-up game for
the man that was always in the
stands.
“When the shutdown hap-
pened, we knew there wasn’t
going to be a season, and we
knew that Tony’s health wasn’t
good, so I just wanted to make
phone calls to people to see
if we could try to organize a
game in Tony’s honor,” Martin
said. “Tony was a great man that
was appreciated by everyone.”
Martin wasn’t sure what
the response would be when
he started making phone calls
asking people to participate,
especially in the middle of a
pandemic. But nearly everyone
Martin called was thrilled to
get the chance to play for Ai-
cher.
“It’s really nice to live in a
community where you can
make calls asking people to do
something and they get excit-
ed,” Martin said.
After being informed of
what was being organized, Sa-
lem-Keizer Volcanoes CEO
Mickey Walker allowed Volca-
noes Stadium to be the site of
the game.
“Everyone I talked to had
fond memories of Tony, and
everyone was just so happy to
be able to be together again. I
was happy I was able to provide
a spot for them to play and do
whatever I could to accommo-
date them,” Walker said.
Because of COVID-19 re-
lated restrictions, only 25 peo-
ple were allowed to be on the
fi eld. There were 20 players,
and nearly all of them are in
the McNary baseball program.
There were also four coaches.
Only one spectator per player
was permitted to come and
watch.
The game was scheduled
for Saturday, May 30. Unfortu-
nately, Aicher passed away three
days before the game, with his
loving family by his side.
Even though he couldn’t
Lost and Found
evening light. Fish
were feeding under
the surface fi lm and
I tried many differ-
ent fl ies, catching
only one small fi sh.
I couldn’t fi gure
out what they
were feeding
on.
As
it
neared dark, I
reached into
a vest pocket
to retrieve my
glasses to replace
my sunglasses. I
found an empty case. I
waded back to camp, sure I’d
left them on the camp table.
No such luck.
Tom and I
went through
eve r y t h i n g ,
the truck, all
the boxes, vest
pockets and
every-
w h e re
we could
imagine
they could
be. I just
fi gured I lost
them.
About an
hour
later,
Tom walked the 30 feet to the
river’s edge to start a small fi re.
Noticing something shining
Submitted
Nearly two dozen Keizer baseball players gathered to play in honor of Tony Aicher, who passed
away three days before the game was played.
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
If you have been to a Keizer
youth sporting event in the last
decade, it’s likely that Tony Aic-
her was in attendance.
Four of Aicher’s grandchil-
dren (Zane, Kyle, Samantha
and Sydnee) grew up playing
multiple sports in Keizer youth
leagues and at McNary. And
Aicher was almost always in at-
tendance.
While Aicher had a love for
all sports that his grandchildren
played, baseball held a special
place in his heart.
Aicher was known for be-
ing a mainstay at youth baseball
games in Keizer. He offered
players advice, took copious
statistics and always brought
As we get older we tend
to forget things more. Not
facts about things, but normal,
mundane things. For example,
going into a room and forget-
ting what you went in there
to get.
On a recent fi shing trip to
the Owyhee River in Eastern
Oregon, this memory prob-
lem was very prevalent. My
fi shing partner, Tom, and I
love fl y fi shing the Owyhee
for its great brown trout and
prolifi c insect hatches.
I always start each trip very
organized. The camp boxes
and cooler are packed with
the essentials because we are
often off the grid, far from a
store. After one day, it seemed
we could never fi nd anything.
One of us was always asking
where something was and
we’d both search until we
found the misplaced item. It
seemed to dominate our con-
versations.
On the second day, fi shing
down the river from camp,
we did well catching some
nice fi sh. Upon returning to
camp, we fi shed the fl at wa-
ter just upstream in the fading
be there in person, the play- “It was a bittersweet day, not
ers still wanted to get together only because Tony couldn’t be
and celebrate the life of Aicher there in person, but because this
by playing the
was the proba-
game that he
bly the last time
“ Many say
loved.
that all these
The atmo- ‘baseball is just
kids will get to
sphere was laid
play together.”
back accord- a sport.’ Those
“There were
ing to Martin.
some
tears,
people never
there
were
After playing
many smiles,
a few innings, met Grandpa
there were lots
the kids took
Aicher. There
of laughs, and
batting practice
every kid on
from Patrick was not a kid on
that fi eld was
Levis, a former
there for all of
youth coach. that fi eld that
the right rea-
While the play- felt they were
sons, even in
ers still showed
their competi- there just for the the midst of ev-
erything going
tive nature, ev- baseball.”
on in the world
eryone in the
stadium knew
— Tammy Ready, today,” Ready
added. “Many
that this was a
say
‘baseball
gathering that
was much bigger than baseball. is just a sport.’ Those people
“After being cooped up for have never met Grandpa Aich-
so long, everyone was so damn er. There was not a kid on that
happy to be there. The kids had fi eld that felt they were there
an absolute blast,” Martin said. just for the baseball.”
in the light of his headlamp,
he spotted glasses under the
chair I had been sitting in ear-
lier in the day. A great fi nd.
On our third day, down
the river, we had a great af-
ternoon in a small rifl e, where
egg-laying caddis fl ies were all
over the surface of the water.
We landed about three doz-
en nice brown trout until the
bugs disappeared. We each had
one 20-inch fi sh to top it off.
Returning to camp the
evening, we once again wad-
ed upstream where fi sh were
feeding again. Same frustrat-
ing results. Then it occurred
to me, something that had
escaped my rational thinking.
Aicher
Something I’d been successful
with in year’s past, I had just
forgotten.
Caddis hatch out of the
water in late evening. I quick-
ly tied on a size 14 soft hackle
emerger and cast to the slight
swirls from fi sh I’d been un-
able to entice. In four casts
I hooked and landed three
brown trout, one being 20
inches and the last, a 22-inch
trophy.
I had somehow forgotten
about caddis hatching in the
late evening. I’d lost the abil-
ity to fi nd the obvious solu-
tion. But I found that solution
again. I hope I remember next
time. I’m getting older.