I played at Bunnyfriend park too. My little brother played little league there for Coach Firmin Simms. Rusty Staub also played little league there.
Wow! Rusty Staub was a few years older than I but I also played for Firmin Simms. I remember watching the games in which Rusty played. Rusty’s dad was a teacher at Nicholls, which is the high school that I attended. Later on Firmin and I worked together at Southern Bell which later became South Central Bell. I was in the central office on Poydras and he was in the Whitehall office but we had to work together on the telephone a lot.
We played on opposing flag football teams at Bunny Friend in the late 60s.
As of a couple of years ago Firmin was still alive and has won many national awards for his baseball and basketball teams.