Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-baseball
Team White won the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game 7-3 at Udall Park this morning over Team Blue. Ten players took the field for each team, but the more experienced lineup on the field today: Team White's.
The bottom three batters for Team White included 93-year-old Floyd Lance, 85-year-old Joe Aparicio and 89-year-old Billy Heiny. Now Heiny turns 90 in August, Lance turns 94 in September and "Little Joe" will reach the age of 86 in January of 2020. Basically, that is close to 270 years of baseball experience.
There were no hits today among them. But it may be safe to say there's no baseball team across the country sporting a starting lineup which includes such a threesome. And all three played the entire game as the temperature reached a hot and dusty 90 degrees by game's end.
Aparicio, a TOT since 1998, was born in Santa Paula, California in 1934, Heiny, a TOT since 1997, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1929 and Lance, a TOT since 1999, was born in Glen Gardner, New Jersey in 1925.
In 1925, bread was 10 cents a pound and a half a gallon of milk was 28 cents. Gas to get to the ball park: 22 cents a gallon. Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States.
Photos: Hats off to the above trio Floyd Lance (top) Billy Heiny (middle) and Joe Aparicio (bottom photo).
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