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The Munger Mongrel
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Sometime during the hot summer of 1948 an old mongrel dog showed up in the neighbor- hood in Munger Place. He was a big dog, quite friendly, with light yellow matted hair and a red nose. He must have had a little bloodhound in his background. During the heat of the day he would follow Jerry around – both of them moving at a snail’s pace. Jerry said in the early morning he was full of energy while always joining Jerry and David on their journey of a mile or so to Lipscomb to throw their paper route. On the way back to Tremont and Munger Blvd., the old mongrel dog would gobble down a few donuts with them at the store or the ice house across from Munger Park at Junius and Henderson.
No one owned the orphan dog that often slept under the Michell family front steps. Sometime he would sleep across the street on Rudi’s porch where he frequently woke the family wagging his big tail on the wall. For a while he was as much a part of our group as anyone and everyone’s friend but he especially loved Jerry.
In the early fall after many attempts over the years we finally organized a sandlot football team. We were rather proud of the proficiency of our work that included plays called by numbers and yard markers but needed a nickname to go with Munger Place. While discarding lesser monikers, Jerry said, “What about Mongrels?” The name stuck and we carried it for the two years or so we played football, basketball and baseball. Yet somehow the name persisted beyond those years and spread to the social life that grew around our group.
As we separated and then met again through the years we referred to ourselves as the Mongrels – and always with great pride.
What happened to the namesake hound no one remembers – at some point in time he was no longer there – much like change itself - you just realize it is not the same anymore. The old lovable dog never had a name of his own but today some sixty years later in Munger Place there is a plaque The Munger Mongrels that bears the name he gave to us.
Few mongrels are remembered as well.
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