Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
The home baseball field for the Tucson Old Timers remains vacant as the Coronavirus continues to play havoc for a group of old timers who are chomping at the bit to return to action.
The members of the 60-and-over amateur baseball organization are used to playing America's Favorite Pastime three days a week, but for the most of March the players have been glued to their own television sets at home -- awaiting the horn to sound, so to speak, signaling a return to the diamond at Udall Park.
According to co-manager Mike Dawson, employees of the City of Tucson Parks and Recreation Department are taking advantage of the lack of play to work on the fields.
"While no date is set for returning to the ball field, when we do we'll be playing on fresh infield dirt," said Mike Dawson, co-manager of the club. "The City of Tucson dressed the infield (on Monday). There's a few rocks in the mix, but not too many."
One thing is for sure, the TOTS miss the old crack of the bat at Udall.
How much longer the members of the TOTS at Udall Park and the 30 Major League Baseball clubs around the nation remain in limbo is anyone's guess.
Until then us old timers remain in self quarantine, searching the channels on our television sets for MLB baseball replays, sipping on a glass of wine and watching reruns of Field of Dreams and For the Love of the Game.
Photo: New dirt at Udall...still no players.
Or the ping of the bat. I saw Dick Ducklow at ACE Monday. He is leaving for Wisconsin next week.
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