Newcomers are welcome additions to TOTS

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball


The Tucson Old Timers are always looking for rookies, those 60-something ball players willing to still take the field to play America's favorite pastime.

This year, the TOTS, a senior amateur baseball organization which has been around since 1968, has  added three rookies to the club --  Ray Gedney, Fred Parks and Miguel Urtaza.

Gedney, 61, is a former police sergeant  from Chicago, Illinois. Gedney bats rights and throws right and divides his time from playing competitive softball and now baseball with the TOTS.

Parks, 68,  was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and has spent a lifetime in the medical field. He bats right and throws right.

Urtaza, 72, bats right and throws right. A former CEO in the import and export business, hails from Mexico, but as his new teammates recently found out, he's a die-hard New York Yankee fan.