Phil Strawn has received baseball trophies for 51 years of managing Wareham Little League teams.  Most of them are in boxes.

And the Gateway Babe Ruth League regular season and championship series trophies keep reappearing.  His name was engraved onto its plaque for the first time in 1983, and he has received them for three out of the past four years.

But when he had to relinquish them last year, he realized that they deserved a more visible location than his traditional spot.

"The guy came over to pick up the trophies [for the awards ceremony] and asked me where they were," Strawn said. "I took him out to the shed."

So he decided to put this year's trophies for managing the 2010 Gateway Babe Ruth League Championship Team in the window of Gone Hollywood Hair Salon on Main Street.

"What am I going to do with them?" he asked.  "Give the kids the trophies, I don't need them, I'm not a 'toot-toot-toot' your own horn type of guy."

For Strawn, the only time he mentions himself when talking baseball is when he notes what he has witnessed.  He never talks about any of his own accomplishments -  "we won," he says - and he recalls individual players and their contributions to victories, not the managerial strategies.

"They had a pitcher, kid by the name of Lawton..." he begins.

And Harry Irving, the owner of Gone Hollywood and a "very good pitcher in his day," according to Strawn, soon joins in.  In fact, if Strawn said that if you couldn't find him in the dugout (he hates fields without dugouts...you get soaked when it rains and, well, he said he's getting too old for that) he said he will be at Gone Hollywood, reminiscing about past baseball games or discussing the prospects for this year's team.

Irving said he doesn't mind.  He is as much a sports enthusiast as Strawn.  Plus, he's got some prime real estate available.

"I don't think I'm going to have the opportunity to put the Red Sox' World Series trophy in there," he said pointing to the floor-to-ceiling bay window.  "So why not?"