TOTS Senior Baseball Network
60-and-over baseball
Seventy-five-year-old Chico Bigham is another one of the "boy wonders" on the Tucson Old Timers 60-and-over baseball team.
He doesn't get old, he just gets better as the 15-year veteran on the oldest organized baseball team in the country, drilled an opposite field RBI triple in the sixth inning today at Udall Park to lead his team to a 10-9 win.
It was a nip and tuck battle from the get go today as Team White's Lloyd Barzell battled Team Blue's Dan Lundwall in a pitcher's duel. With the score deadlocked and a runner on first base, Bigham waited on a fastball from Lundwall and sent a shot into right field, which bounced just inside the first baseline. By the time Team Blue's 82-year-old right-fielder Jerry Smarik caught up with the ball, the winning run had crossed the plate and Bigham jogged into third.
Bigham, one of the top pitchers on the TOTS, played third today and continued with a hot bat at the plate. He's maintained a .500 batting average since June.
Lundwall pitched well but was saddled with the loss, while Barzell picked up the win as both pitchers went the distance.
The TOTS will be back at it on Monday and will close out the month with games on Wednesday and Friday. Game time for all three games is set for 9 a.m.
Photo: Chico Bigham
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