TOTS player in Greater Akron Hall of Fame

TOTS Senior Baseball Network

60-and-over baseball

I had the pleasure of playing baseball in the first week of the MSBL World Series in Phoenix with teammate Ed Rife, 76, who is also a member and a teammate on the Tucson Old Timers (TOTS) baseball club which plays three days a week at Udall Park.

Rife was born in Akron, Ohio, and he is somewhat of a baseball legend in the city of Akron.

Check this article out, which I recently discovered on the Internet.


Ed "Eddie" Rife excelled in baseball, basketball and football at Ellet High School, and had a pair of outstanding seasons in baseball and basketball at Compton Junior College before beginning an 18-year class AA League career. Eddie was an excellent defensive player at all the infield spots, was a consistent .300 hitter, and finished his career as an All-Star first baseman. Eddie played with Chester's Diner, Barberton Weather-Seal and champion Krispy Kreme, Borden Auto and Tramonte Black Label teams before closing out his career with the champion Red Peppers. Ed was named to three All-Star teams and provided all his teams with clutch hitting from the left side of the plate. Ed joins his father, Paul Rife, as the second member of the Rife Family to be inducted into The Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame.

My friend and teammate Ed Rife was inducted into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987.

Of course, Ed is an Hall of Famer with the TOTS as well!