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January 28, 2003 - March 30, 2022


James "Hudson" Mankin

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Some Friendships are Forever
Even if one of the friends is no longer here. Our best ever travel baseball memories are with Pat (“Diddy”) Matthews and the Carolina Impact team (Kelly’s badass travel team!) - it was nonstop outrageous fun! Love so much that Pat stopped by and “saw” Hud and Kelly - and left two baseballs and a shirt! Love even more him taking time to have lunch with me and reminisce - waitress stopped by at least 10 times asking to take our order but we were too busy laughing and catching u
sunshine222
Aug 21 min read


Some Friendships Never Die
Not even when one of the friends is no longer here. Our best ever baseball memories were made with Pat (“Diddy”) Matthews and Carolina Impact (Kelly’s travel team) - it was always outrageous fun on and off the fields! Pat was Kelly’s most loyal and loved player - he spent 2-3 hrs a week with Kelly in hitting lessons and worked harder than any player on any team he was on. Kelly loved him like a son and Hud loved him like a brother. Love so much that Pat went and “saw” Hud and
sunshine222
Aug 11 min read


Heartfelt Thanks for Pokemon Tributes
Slow down. Hud told me that when he came home from wilderness camp almost 5 years ago to the day. We’d go on hikes and I’d be going at mach speed and he’d ask me - why are you in such a hurry? So something triggered early this week. Slow down. Go to HUDs site. Haven’t been in awhile. So I drop a long list of to do’s and head uptown. Get stuck in CLT traffic 🤬. Start to turn around and head home but catch the cars license plate in front of me - JHM. This is HUDs sign for Made
sunshine222
Oct 19, 20251 min read
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