Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
September stats at Udall Park
Mike Dawson and Bob Long finished deadlocked for the most hits in September with 17 apiece, and the hard-hitting lefty Reed Palmer walloped four home runs to increase his career total with the TOTS to 104, an all-time club record.
Dawson went 17 for 29 for a .586 batting average, while Long batted an even .500 with 17 hits in 30 at-bats. Palmer led the club with 15 RBI and went 13 for 24, a .542 average. Ron Ryan had another exceptional month at the plate with 15 hits in 31 at-bats, a .484 average, while finishing second in RBI with 13.
Other top hitters for the month included John Cooke, Pete Maldonado, and Jimmy Kinion -- all with 14 hits apiece, while John Mathews and newcomer Frank Garcia hit safely 13 times. Mathews batted .591 in seven games, while Garcia batted .433 and played in all 11 games. Maldonado finished the month with a .483 average, Kinion at .467, and Cooke at .389.
Other notables who played well in September include (Brack Whitaker 7 for 29, a .241 average, in 11 games), Dave Byars (6 for 23, a .261 average, in nine games), Jesse Ochoa (5 for 19, a .263 average, in seven games), Joe Opocensky (7 for 17, a .412 average, in six games), Ken Nebesny (11 for 28, a .393 average, in nine games), Mark Rupert (10 for 31, a .323 average in, eight games) and Mike Steele (5 for 16, a .313 average, in nine games).
All in all, 38 players saw action and banged out a total of 255 hits around the TOTS' home field at Udall Park. Well, except for the four that left the yard by Mr. Palmer.
It was a warm-up for some of the boys heading for Phoenix later this month to play in the 35th Men's Senior Baseball League World Series. Besides Dawson, Long, and Mathews, six additional TOTS players will be making the trip north.
Bob Daliege warmed up for the MSBL World Series with nine hits in 30 trips to the plate in September, a .300 average, Danny Price went eight for 30, a .267 average, Ernesto Escala went 5 for 16, a .313 average, Larry Abramson went 7 for 12, a .583 average, Sam Dean went 8 for 17, a .471 average and Tim Tolson went 12 for 26, a .462 average.
Four TOTS will see action on the mound in Phoenix at the MSBL World Series and they include Daliege, Escala, Abramson, and Dawson. The four hurlers combined for 65 innings of work in September with Dawson posting the top won-loss record among the four at 2-1. Crafty Pete Maldonado led all TOTS' pitchers in September with a 4-0 record.
Way to go, TOTS! And good luck to the World Series-bound TOTS!
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