I'm not the youngest TOT anymore...

As a proud member of the Tucson Old Timers (TOTS) Baseball team, it has occurred to me that I'm not the "Rookie" on the ball club anymore.

The current roster list 12 players with a birth date later than mine! My goodness, wasn't it just the other day, when I joined the club (the World's Oldest Baseball Team in the country), in April of 2008, at just 62 years of age? I was born in 1945, gonna hit 66 in five weeks, and there are two guys on the active roster born in 1949 and two more teammates born in the 50s! (well, actually, 1950).

The oldest TOT is 85-year-old Floyd Lance,a member of the club since 1999, while Chuck Sabalos, a recently retired Tucson Superior Court Judge, shares rookie honors with Lloyd Barzell.

Lance was born on September 6, 1925, Sabalos, March 5, 1950 and Barzell entered this world on August 28, 1950.

The TOTS, with 52 active members (plus 13 Honorary members) play on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Tucson Udall Park. An off-shoot of the TOTS are the Tucson Aces, which play on Tuesdays against two senior-circuit teams from the south side of town, the Old Pueblo Club and the Arizona Rattlers.