TOTS' single-season hits record in jeopardy

TOTS Senior Baseball Network

60-and-over baseball


The 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers baseball team has been around since 1968 and the organization continues to play at Udall Park three days a week from January to December.

No spring or winter breaks for this ball club. No way!

This year two of the youngest members, 64-year-old Lloyd "Baby Bull" Barzell and 65-year-old Pistol Pete Peters are on the verge of setting the individual record for hits in a season and it looks like it is a race to the wire for the two players with just over three weeks left in the month of December.

Barzell was the top hitter for the month of November with 21 hits in 36 trips to the plate, a .583 average, while Peters went 16 for 27 for a .593 average. If you add those November totals to their total output for the season, it looks like the record of 228 hits, set by Chico Bigham in 2005, is going down.

Barzell, after 11 months of action, is at 218 hits, while Peters is not far behind with 211 hits. Both players have a shot at the record with 12 games still scheduled for the month of December.

Other top hitting performances for the month of November include Tim Tolson (18 fo 30, a .533 average) and Brian Reilly (16 for 36, a .467 average). In the all-important category of runs-batted-in, it was Doc Thompson and Tolson with 16 RBI.