Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
Dick Ducklow, 75, spends the winter months in Tucson and the summer months in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. While in Tucson, Dick plays baseball with the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers.
Ducklow, a right-handed hitter who joined the TOTS in 2009, has been known over the years as a pull hitter, but recently he's been hitting the ball to center field and to right field.
Today at Udall Park, Ducklow went 4 for 4 and drove in two runs to lead Team Blue to a 14-13 win over Team White. "My knees are bothering me, but I had a pretty good day," said Ducklow, who needed a pinch runner in his final at bat today.
Doc Thompson, from Roland, Iowa, led Team White with a perfect 3 for 3 day at the plate, a walk and four runs batted in. Thompson, at age 74 and a member of the TOTS since 2006, had knee surgery over a year ago, but is running...and hitting better than he has in years.
Team White trailed at one point, 13-1, but battled back during the middle innings to pull within four runs and then scored three more times in the bottom of the seventh, before Team Blue closed the game out on a force out at second base.
It turned out to be a slugfest, but Team Blue's starter, Pigpen Price, picked up the win, despite needing help in the fifth inning from reliever Reed Palmer. Team White's Arnie White started and was saddled with the loss, while Thompson hurled the final three innings and allowed only one unearned run.
Photo: Dick Ducklow
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