Coronavirus Update

Coronavirus Update (May 30, 2020)


Deaths worldwide:  369,393

Deaths USA:  105,352

Deaths in Arizona:  903

Deaths in Pima Country:  185

In the year 2025...

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

One more fantasy story

In the year 2025, on the final day of the regular season, LA Angels star Albert Pujols stepped into the batter's box to face Oakland's Yusei Kikuchi. Pujols, 45,  needing one more home run to become the top career home run leader of all time, surpassing Barry Bonds (762).

Pujols, who came back after the lost season of 2020, to hit 35 home runs in 2021,  has averaged 19  home runs during his past four seasons and now has one last swing left in his 25th and final season...and his final at bat in the major leagues.

The pitch was on its way. Pujols swung and the ball sailed over the left field fence at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.

Closer to home, the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers had survived the coronavirus in 2020, and the heat wave during the summer of 2023 when the temperatures surpassed 120 degrees, not once but seven times during the month of August.

The boys of summer...winter...fall and spring, are still going strong at Udall Park. The TOTS' current roster includes 65 active members and a new flock of 60-year-olds are on hand to give the 70-somethings a run for their money. TOTS' standouts like Reed Palmer, Mike Dawson, Ken Nebesny  and John Mathews are enjoying their final months in their 60s and are quickly approaching the age of 70, while the older players of yesteryear like Doc Thompson, Pigpen Price, Bob Daliege, Bill Mishler and David Byars have either reached the 80s, or are pretty darn close.

Still, the TOTS live on.

In the year 2025...people will survive.

Note: Of course, Pujols ends up across town in real life and joins the LA Dodgers. I guess I'm just a so-so fortune teller.

Team Blue out slugs Team White In TOTS' matchup, 11-9

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Doc Thompson, Bob Daliege and Jesse Ochoa combined for nine hits and eight RBI to lead Team Blue to a 11-9 win over Team White today at Udall Park. Thompson was the top RBI-man with four runs-batted in, Daliege knocked in three and Ochoa knocked in a run.

Team Blue took an 8-4 lead into the top of the seventh inning and added three insurance runs, while Team White plated five runs in the bottom of the inning and fell short as Daliege went the distance on the mound to pick up the win to even his record this month to 1-1. Palmer struck out five batters in the game for Team White, but was saddled with the loss today.

Roger Beebe, Dave Byars and Palmer collected three hits for Team White, while Mike Dawson, John Mathews and Palmer knocked in two runs apiece as each team collected 15 hits.

The TOTS ended up playing six games this month, despite the coronavirus and will open the June schedule with a 9 a.m. game on Monday, June 1.

Today's box score:

Team Blue  11  Team White  9

A come-from-behind win at Udall

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Thunder Tim Tolson went 4 for 4 and drove in three runs to lead Team White to a 7-6 win today in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game at Udall Park.

Down 6-1, Team White scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and two more runs in the bottom of the seventh for the win. Doc Thompson picked up the pitching victory and collected two hits and two RBI, while Ken Nebesny went 3 for 4 and scored two runs.

Joe Opocensky went the distance for Team Blue and was the losing team's top hitter with a 3 for 4 day and two runs scored.

The TOTS finish up their second week of action and close out their March schedule with a game on Friday at Udall. Game time: 9 a.m.

Photo: Thunder Tim Tolson

Coronavirus Update

Coronavirus Update (May 25, 2020)


Worldwide deaths: 347,854

Deaths in the USA:  99, 805

In the State of Arizona: 806

Escala a proven winner

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Memorial Day Game

Today at Udall Park, the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers honored the United States Armed Forces with yet another baseball game -- the fourth game played since the rules were relaxed to open the gates for the return to action of the amateur ball club.

The TOTS took another swing at the coronavirus and took the field at Udall Park this morning.

Another well-played game ensued as Team White, behind the pitching of Ernesto "Doc" Escala, who threw a complete game and out dueled Team Blue's Mike Dawson, en route to a 7-3 win.

Escala is used to winning. In fact, Escala's winning ways go back to the days when he played in the Tucson Men's Senior Baseball League. Escala played for the Athletics, one of the top Tucson MSBL teams. In 2008, Doc joined the organization's Hall of Fame and was among the inductees to the class of 2008.

Escala mowed down the Team Blue hitters today. Only his pitching counterpart, Dawson, was able to figure out Escala's offerings. Dawson, a hot hitter since the TOTS return to action on May 18, went into today's game with nine hits in his recent 10 at bats and kept the hot streak going by grabbing a couple of hits today, while knocking in two of Team Blue's three runs.

Dawson pitched well and logged in seven innings of work, but some key hits from George Staas,  Reed Palmer and Bob Daliege, along with a late-inning sacrifice fly from Doc Thompson proved to be enough to send Dawson to a hard-luck loss.

The TOTS still have two more games this week at Udall with games on Wednesday and Friday. Game time for both: 9 a.m.

Photo: Escala

TOTS' 53rd season: A season to remember

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

In 1968, the TOTS' first season, Martin Luther King was assassinated, the active United States troops in Vietnam had reached 549,500 and the hottest single to top the charts was "Hey, Jude" by the Beatles.

The TOTS, under the direction of founder Joe Gorman, began play at Himmel Park, located near Speedway and Tucson Blvd.

Ten years later, Pete Rose passed the 3,000-mark in career hits, Al Unser won the Indy 500 and Affirmed became only the 11th horse to win the Triple Crown.

By the time the 1990s had rolled around, the TOTS had moved to a short stint at Fort Lowell Park and by the end of the decade had moved to their current home at Udall Park, their home field just a short walk south of the Udall Senior Center.

In the year 2001, on September the 11th, 19 terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 3,000 people. The cost of eggs was $1.40 a dozen, milk was $2.85 a gallon and a loaf of bread was a shade under one dollar.

The TOTS survived the late '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s and rolled into the next decade, expanding from a nine-member team in 1968 to more than 50 active members and another 50 retired and honorary members...and sadly the loss of a "few good men" in the process.

Now here we are in 2020, the world and the United States...and the TOTS are learning how to cope with a coronavirus that has swept our nation, killing over 100,000 of our citizens.

The TOTS put their 53rd season on hold during the second week of March, due to the virus. They waited patiently (well...actually the members were chomping at the bit to return to action) for the Arizona governor to release the stay-at-home restriction.

And on May 15, Governor Doug Ducey opened the gates as far as the TOTS were concerned.

Build us a field and we'll be there. I just confused myself with the movie, Field of Dreams.

The big question for the TOTS co-managers, Mike Dawson and Reed Palmer: Would enough players show up for an official game? They needed 18 players...20 if you throw in the customary 10th man -- a rover, which turns the normal three-player TOTS' outfield in to a family of four.

No worries. Twenty-eight players showed and 22 played on Monday, May 18, on Wednesday 23 members took the field during the TOTS' second game back and then on Friday, another 21 took the field during the final game of the week.

The TOTS are back. The 53rd season is now in full swing with a couple of rule adjustments to "play it safe" against the still unwanted visitor, the coronavirus, which remains alive and kicking and playing havoc across our country.

The TOTS will live on. They prove it time and time again.

Dawson, Reed, Ryan lead TOTS' Blue to 11-6 win

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

The Tucson Old Timers are definitely back.

Today the TOTS played their third game of the week and it was a blast -- as in Reed Palmer, who blasted his third home run of the year over the right field fence and Mike Dawson, who had a career day with a 5 for 5 performance and scored five times, to lead TOTS' Blue to a 12-7 win over Team White.

Reed went 3 for 3 and knocked in four runs, while the hard-hitting Ron Ryan went 4 for 5 and also knocked in four runs. Reed also picked up the win on the mound, while Team White's Bob Daliege was saddled with the loss.

Team White battled back, but just couldn't punch across the runs. Thunder Tim Tolson hit a solo home run for Team White, while Doc Thompson, Mike Steele and Daliege collected two hits apiece. Thompson drove in two of Team Blue's six runs, John Mathews singled and knocked in a run and Steele knocked in a run.

The TOTS will take the weekend off and return to action on Monday.

Peters takes a tumble

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball


Today's game at Udall:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

There's never a dull moment at a Tucson Old Timers' game.

And today was a perfect example.

In the first inning, one of the more reliable outfielders on the TOTS, Team White's Pete Peters, turned and headed for the warning track in left field in hopes of tracking down a fly ball. He slipped and took a tumble, banging his head on the hard-as-a-rock turf at Udall Park. Peters was out cold for a good four minutes, but was still breathing. He was either unconscious, knocked out or stunned, whatever you want to call it, but his teammates and the onlookers at Udall were in for some anxious moments.

Five minutes later, the paramedics and the fire truck arrived on the scene and hauled Pistol Pete off to St. Joseph's Hospital. Pete is now back with us and resting at home.

If that wasn't enough, one inning later Team Blue's left fielder Roger Beebe found himself in a similar situation. A deep fly ball had Beebe on the run. Beebe turned around in time and found the ball on top of his noggin. Another timeout was called as some of Beebe's teammates rushed to his aid. Beebe picked up his hat, brushed it against his right knee and signaled that he was all right.

By this time, the game had entering the bottom of the second inning and over an hour had expired since the first pitch was thrown. There was an ending to this game, but it took two hours and 45 minutes to complete.

In the end, Team Blue won the game over Team White 12-9, thanks to a come-from-behind, top of the seventh inning when they plated four runs.

Down 9-8,  after Team White had taken a one-run lead on consecutive hits from Ron Ryan, Reed Palmer and John Mathews in the bottom of the sixth, Team Blue went to work and banged out five hits off Team White's Mike Dawson, including a single from Dennis Crowley and doubles from Tim Tolson, Doc Thompson and Steve Foster.

Thompson's blast to the gap in left-center was the killer hit off Dawson as the go-ahead runs scored to put Team Blue in the lead 10-9. Two more runs would score before Dawson was able to get out of the inning by striking out Phil Gordon and getting Denny Leonard to ground out to third for the final out.

Still, Team White had a chance in the bottom of the seventh to change matters, but Thompson, who went the distance for the win, struck out a batter and two force plays followed to end the game.

Palmer, who led Team White with a 4 for 4 day, scored three times and knocked in three runs, while Mathews went 2 for 4 and knocked in four runs. Crowley led Team Blue with a 4 for 4 day, while Tolson went 3 for 4 and Thompson ended up 2 for 3 on the day with a run scored and two RBI.

So, the good: the fact the TOTS are back in action, despite the coronavirus. The bad: Well, there really isn't anything bad that happened. The ugly: Pistol Pete's adventure in left field and Beebe's header an inning later.

The TOTS will be back on Friday and try it again. The first pitch at 9 a.m.

TOTS are back! TOTS are back!

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Taking swings at the coronavirus

The TOTS are back!

The 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers are back on the field and playing baseball again as Arizona Governor Doug Ducey's stay-at-home orders expired on Friday. That left the gate open for the old-timers on the TOTS (players between the ages of 60 to 94) to play an official game at Udall Park today.

The coronavirus has played havoc with everyone in this great land of ours, and the world, too. But here, in Tucson, Arizona, the players on the amateur baseball club (some 45 members) have been chomping at the bit to return to their favorite pastime.

Today, 27 players showed up this morning at the TOTS' field at Udall and 21 players saw action in the first official game to be played since March the 9th when Bob Daliege tossed a 4-hit shutout as Team Blue edged Team White, 4-0.

Daliege took the mound again today and went up against another hard-throwing right-hander Joe Opocensky. This time Opocensky came out the victor as Team White beat Team Blue, 10-5.

All the scoring for Team White came in the third and fourth innings when they plated 10 runs, while Team Blue scored two runs in the first and three runs in the fourth. DeLon "Doc" Thompson was the big gun for Team White, a 3 for 3 day and four RBI. Mike Dawson went 3 for 3 and knocked in a run, while Opocensky helped his own cause with a 3 for 3 day as well. Lefty Dennis Crowley, who normally hits to the opposite field, crushed a Daliege fastball to deep centerfield for an RBI-double.

John Mathews, Tim Tolson, Ray Garcia, Dave Byars and Jesse Ochoa were the top hitters for Team Blue. Tolson went 3 for 3 and knocked in a run, Mathews had two hits and knocked in two runs, while Garcia, Byars and Ochoa collected two hits apiece in the game.

The TOTS adhered to all the rules-of-play today, and there were many. Normally, the TOTS use one dugout, but today both dugouts were used (well, not really). Chairs were set up, six feet apart in front of the dugouts and up and down the first and third baselines (away from the field of play, of course). An extra base at first was used to avoid possible collisions and the extra base at home for runners has always been the norm.

Wearing a mask was optional, but more and more players are showing up with neck gaiters, a more formal-looking face covering. Plenty of handy wipes were on hand as well as bottles of hand sanitizers. Safety is key.

According to co-managers Dawson and Reed Palmer "being safe" on and off the field is paramount.

"The managers really appreciate all the guys adhering to all the rules today. It worked out fine and we had a great turnout," Dawson said, after the two-hour game was in the books.

One thing is for sure. The TOTS will be back on Wednesday to play another game. The Tucson Old Timers are heading into the summer months, but currently schedule their warmups at 8:00 a.m., followed by batting practice and then the first pitch every Monday, Wednesday and Friday is set for 9:00 a.m.

Today's lineups:  Team Blue -- Roger Beebe, Ken Nebesny, Tim Tolson, John Mathews, Ray Garcia, Dave Byars, Bobby Daliege, Bill Mishler, Jesse Ochoa, Brad Vermeer and Miguel Urtaza. Team White -- George Staas, Dennis Crowley, Reed Palmer, Joe Opocensky, Ron Ryan, Mike Dawson, Doc Thompson, Danny Price, Mike Steele and Brack Whitaker. Umpires: Robert Royer and Jerry Hamelin and Pete Maldonado. Scorekeeper: Mal Zwolinski. Also on hand, but did not bat today, Tim Boyd and Ron Petersen.

Photos: Today's pitchers Joe Opocensky, Bob Daliege, Tim Tolson, Doc Thompson and our scorekeeper Mal Zwolinski.

Mishler's commandments a go

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball


Return to action

The 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers may return to action on Monday, the 18th of May, if the governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, releases the current stay-at-home policy, which expires tomorrow.

Many restaurants, gyms and coffee shops are now open with limited capacity and social distancing rules. And so it goes with the TOTS, who will implement most of Bill Mishler's (see prior post on May 1, 2020) social distancing rules.

Most of the TOTS are chomping at the bit and ready to take the field.

We are ready to play ball," says co-manager Mike Dawson. "We will resume play under specific social distancing rules."

Dawson adds a best case scenario is to have the first 20 members sign in by 8:30 and the first pitch of the Monday, Wednesday and Friday games to follow at 9:00 a.m.

Go TOTS!

A Beautiful morning in the Old Pueblo

My early morning thoughts...


It's May 11, 2020 and I will not even bother to go back in time and count the days the world has battled this coronavirus. What is sad for me to publish is the latest tally in deaths in the USA. The latest tally 80,787 deaths and 1,367,963 cases. And who knows how accurate those counts are. The count is climbing...and climbing.

Here in the Old Pueblo, better known as Tucson, Arizona, it is a beautiful morning. I'm on my patio punching away on my new laptop. My old laptop burnt up after 10 years of use.

I called a local business and made a reservation to come into the store. With the appointment safely in the books, I headed to my destination. I pulled my Mustang up to the store, followed the cones and pulled up curbside and was quickly greeted by an employee. I parked the car, put on my mask and was escorted to a knowledgeable fella ( also a masked man). As I battled my breathing through my new apparatus, which covered my nose all the way down to my chin, we walked quickly to the computer side of the store.

Within 30 minutes, I was out the door with my brand new MacBook Air laptop.

Wow! One more fire put out and I'm back in business. It was a scary moment for me because having my own laptop (in working order) is similar to having your favorite poodle in your lap or better yet a  bigger dog that actually loves you more than many of your relatives.

With all five of my books done (redone) and alive and well on the internet, I can focus on real life for a change. After all five of my books are fiction and I can get lost somewhere in Chapter 4 or 5 (when I'm working on them)...and be in another world for as long as I like.

At any rate, I looked at my driver's license this morning and discovered I'm running out of time. I turn 75 in July and the MVD doors are locked. At least, I think they are. The rumor is, I'm allowed an extension to get my license renewed.

I'll check it out and see what needs to be done. Then there's the other thing: We are supposed to get a travel ID card to replace our regular license. I'm not even going to go there right now. I'm not sure I have my birth certificate handy, after all I was born in 1945, back when no one cared if you had a driver's license or not.

Well, let's get back to this beautiful morning. Our pool is closed because of the coronavirus, so I'm setting here on the patio, listening to cars go by on Sabino Canyon Road.

It seems like everything is normal. It's six o'clock in the morning and I've been up for two hours and I assume the folks flying by in their vehicles are heading for work...or maybe they are heading north, four miles or so, to go walking or hiking in the canyon.

Everything seems normal. Right?

We all know there's nothing normal anymore.

Coronavirus Update

Coronavirus Update

in the United States (as of 5/11/2020)


Total cases:  1,367,963

Deaths:  80,787

Everyone please stay safe.

A down home country battle...TOTS style

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Corona Games

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The East vs. the West...or to be more specific:  the 60-and-over TOTS from East of the Missouri River against the TOTS players from West of the Pecos.

Now there are no guns allowed in this one. Bats only. The wooden kind and certainly not those creatures from China. For the game today we have a couple honorary managers -- for the Pecos Blues we have Judge Roy Bean. We definitely need law and order for the next two hours, while the Mizzou Whites will counter with Casey Stengel, the former manager and right fielder of the New Yankees.

That should give Team White the edge, after all they have a baseball mind to guide them, while Bean, who was born in Kentucky in 1825 and turned 195 years old in March, knew what to do with a pistol, but never saw a baseball in his life.

Of course, Stengel is just a youngster compared to Bean. Casey will turn 130 in September and is only 36 years older than the TOTS'  oldest player -- 94 year-old Floyd Lance.

Enough about age. It's all relative.

Starting for the Pecos Blues is a tall lanky right hander by the name of Reed Palmer, from Portland, Oregon, while Pete Maldonado, from da Bronx, will get the call for Team White. The catchers for today's game will be Roger Beebe from Tombstone, the town too tough to die, while Ron Carlson, from Brooklyn, New York, will put on the gear for the Mizzou Whites and set up shop behind home plate.

The Pecos Blues will have former Tucson prep stars: Dave Byars at first base, Pigpen Price at second, Mike Dawson at short and John Mathews at third base. In the outfield, left to right:  Tim Boyd, Tim Tolson and Mike Steele, along with short fielder Jesse Ochoa.

Team Mizzou will counter with Joe Opocensky, from Virginia, at first base, Bill Mishler, from Miami, Florida, at second base, and two guys from da Bronx, Ray Garcia at third and Lloyd Barzell at shortstop.

Another man from da Bronx, Ken Nebesny, will handle duties in left field, Dennis Crowley, from Boston, will set up shop in center and Ted Davis, from Athens, Alabama, will handle chores in right field. Jerry Hamelin, from Hartford, Connecticut, is the designated short fielder.

Once again, fresh off the square dance floor, is umpire Robert Royer, from Reading, Pennsylvania. Royer spends most of his free time square dancing these days. He will be hard pressed to dance around the calls for balls and strikes. There will be no Dosy Doe around home plate today.

As for the reporter, I'm already tired and the first pitch has yet to be thrown.

The Mizzou Whites took the field 15 minutes late. All the masks were stolen and the players had to wait the arrival of another 20 or so masks, all coming from the local Circle K, just one mile east of  Udall ballpark.

At 9:15. a.m. the first pitch was thrown. It was a high fastball from Palmer and Nebesny let the pitch go for ball one. On the very next pitch, Nebesny sent a screamer by Mathews at third. The ball went all the way to the fence and Nebesny ended up at third. Crowley followed with a swinging bunt in front of the plate. Nebesny scampered home and Crowley beat out the infield hit. Opocensky followed with a two-run homer to right and the Mizzou Whites led 3-0.

The Pecos Blues picked up a run in the bottom of the first on four straight singles from Dave Byars, Pigpen Price, Mike Dawson and John Mathews. Byars scored from third on Mathews' opposite-field single to right field.

Maldonado allowed two more hits in the inning -- a single by Tolson and a double from Boyd. But the man from da Bronx settled down and got out of the inning with a 3-1 lead.

The game turned into a pitching duel for the next four innings. Palmer gave way to Ernesto "Doc" Escala in the fifth and he shutdown the Mizzou Whites until the seventh inning, while Maldonado did the same with four strike outs -- two in the fifth and two more K's in the sixth.

In the top of the seventh inning, the Mizzou Whites picked up an insurance run on singles by Mishler,  Garcia and Barzell. With two outs and the bases loaded, Nebesny hit a shot up the middle to score Mishler, but Palmer, now playing straight-a-way center, unleashed a throw to the plate in time for Beebe to catch the ball and tag out Garcia for the final out.

Down 4-1, the Pecos Blues were in trouble and their manager Judge Roy Bean had a little too much whiskey in the dugout. In fact, Bean had left the premises, as did Stengel, who turned over his duties to Hamelin, a former MSBL manager.

With Judge Bean out of the way, Steele took over the managing duties, gathered his troops and told everyone to hit away. And that's exactly what they did. Beebe, Dawson and Palmer all singled to load the bases and Escala stepped into the batter's box to face  Crowley,  who came on in relief of  Maldonado.

Escala worked the count to 3-1 and then sent a high fly ball to deep left field. Nebesny looked up and followed the oval as it left the ball park. A GRAND SLAM and the Pecos Blues win the game in walk-off fashion, 5-4.

This reporter is tired. These fantasy games take a lot out of you.

Mishler's 17 commandments

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Corona Games

On our 60-and-over amateur baseball team, we have enough characters to write a dozen books.

Everywhere you look on the Tucson Old Timers, you can find a teammate that'll keep you in stitches, one way or another.

For instance, we have our share of professors and at the top of the list is our catcher/first baseman/second baseman/outfielder William Mishler.

Now, Billy is no ordinary dude. His title: Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Billy boy is a Visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and co-editor of the Journal of Politics.

When Bill Mishler talks, people listen.

So, Bill has come up with the 17 commandments, which we, the TOTS, need to put in place for us to return to the baseball diamond, despite this coronavirus thing that's going around.

Here goes:

1)  Limit players to 20 -- 10 per side, no subs and the first 20 to arrive play.

2) Temperatures must be taken of all players on arrival; anyone with a temperature in excess of 99.5 will be sent home (and we are not talking about an FM radio channel here).

3) No one is allowed to sit in the dugouts. A sign up table will be provided outside the dugout.

4) Players will maintain a 6 foot distance from others at all times.

5) Players will sit outside the dugouts in plastic chairs -- 6 feet apart.

6) All players on the sidelines will wear face coverings.

7) No spectators allowed on the field. They may sit properly spaced in the stands.

8) All players, except pitchers, must wear batting or other protective gloves at all times. Exception: Pitchers may pitch with a glove on their pitching hand but must sanitize hand before each inning.

9) Batting team provides all umpires who must wear face coverings on the field. Batting team also provides the scorekeeper.

10) First basemen and catchers must wear face coverings in the field.

11) Any batter who reaches base must put on face covering immediately upon stopping.

12) All players must wear gloves on both hands at all times.

13) No players may use the water fountain.

14) No players allowed over 80 (that one, not so much).

15) No beer, prayer, or other post-game social gatherings will be allowed.

16) Sharing of bats is permitted. Players are encouraged to use their own bats. Those without personal bats may choose one TOTS' bat for their exclusive use before each game on a first-dibs basis. TOTS'-owned  bat handles must be sanitized with alcohol or Clorox by its batter before bat's first use each day.

17) All tag plays are eliminated and treated as force plays. If you start for a base, you are committed to going. Players are automatically out if caught in a run-down.

So, there you have it.

It might be easier to park your car in the parking lot and stay six feet apart and roll the windows down and take turns reliving how we used to play the game.

Nice effort, Bill!  I thought the author of this blog, yours truly, had a lot of time on his hands. Bill has me beat!

Photo: Professor Bill