Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
Joe Opocensky, Gary Cuttler, and Bobby Daliege were the big stars for the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers during the month of November.
Opocensky, 73, led the amateur baseball club in hits with 18 and a batting average of .500. He batted 36 times in 11 of the 13 games and was the top man in the RBI department with 10.
Daliege, 75, gave Opocensky a run for his money (of course, there is no money with the TOTS) and finished second in hits, going 16 for 33 and a .485 average.
Cuttler, the young man of the trio at 68, decided to toe the rubber in November. He logged 22 innings and posted a 2-2 record with the most strikeouts on the club at 16.
There was only one home run hit out of the ballpark at Udall Park, and that came off the bat of Jon Beady, 62. Beady, who played in just five games, made the most of his at-bats with eight hits in 13 official trips to the plate for a healthy .615 batting average. He finished second in RBI with nine.
Also finishing with 10 hits or more for the month were Tim Tolson (12), while David Byars, John Mathews, Ken Nebesny, Mike Dawson, Pete Maldonado, and Sam Dean tied with 10 hits apiece.
As a club, the TOTS scattered 240 hits around the confines of Udall Park (including, of course, Beady's shot over the left field fence) and maintained a .322 team batting average.
Forty-five players saw action during the month, while 10 members took their shot on the mound and logged a total of 173 innings. There were two kiss-your-sister games with no winner or loser.
The TOTS are off and running in December, the club's final month of the 2023 season -- their 56th season as the organization continues to play every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Udall, all 12 months of the year. Game time in the winter is 10 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. in the summer.
Today, December 1, the TOTS were rained out, but they hope to return to action on Monday.
Photos: (top to bottom) Opocensky, Cuttler, and Daliege.
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