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Summer Volume 18 Number 4 1. First and foremost, count your blessings and be thankful for all the good things in your life and especially if you and yours are enjoying good health and that you feel well enough to play Senior Softball, the game we all love. 2. We still need guys who will volunteer their time to help run the various leagues. It's a thankless job, but someone has to do it, otherwise there is no Senior Softball. So, please volunteer your time and try to help out. If I can do it, any one of you can certainly do it. 3. Team parity is still a problem in most leagues. We all want to win -- but do we want to win by a lopsided score? I know I don't -- I'd much rather win a close, well-played game. We're supposed to be playing softball to have fun, get some exercise and meet a lot of guys in our own age bracket (who may have the same ailments as we do) -- but we should not be playing softball to win at all costs. 4. Once again, I give my respect and admiration to the guys in their 70's and some in their 80's who are still playing softball -- most of the times they are playing against guys who are 10 years or more younger than they are. May the Good Lord continue to bless them. I think we all hope that we will still be playing softball in our 70's and 80's. |
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| The Tuesday Morning 60 and Over
Senior Softball league began 20 years ago. Wow, how time
flies. The original teams were the West Orange Embers,
Nutley, Roxbury and Morris. The 2010 season was a huge
success and included eight teams that played
doubleheaders in West Orange and Randolph. The season ended with a playoff mini-tournament with the top four teams playing against each other and the bottom four teams competing against one another. After the mini-tournament was completed, Gene Stracco, the League Commissioner, hosted a terrific catered barbecue. The barbecue was a huge success, with many of the players’ wives bringing delicious desserts and helping to serve food and also with the cleanup and we thank them for that. Everyone left the barbecue with a full belly, including the Mayor of Randolph, who stopped by to say a few words and to praise all the Senior Softball players for the devotion to the game. Gene Stracco presented Paul Oliver with a plaque for his devotion to the league. Gene Stracco held two meetings with the league Managers in January 2011, to discuss league rules, develop schedules, and make plans for a successful 2011 season. A discussion was held in regards to starting a 67+ league on Thursday mornings and we are hoping that league will start in July 2011. The theme for the 67+ league will be to play to win, but not at all costs – and to be respectful and careful of the older players. Many players in that league will be in their 70’s and some will be in their 80’s – May God bless them all and may we all be alive and still playing softball in our 80’s.
MORE THAN JUST PLAYING SOFTBALL To most seniors, playing softball is fun and something they enjoy. To others, helping those less fortunate is just as important. That is the goal of some of the Over 50 and Over 60 Senior Softball league players. Jerry Yaros, Joe Serrao, and Bob Hutcheon volunteer their services at the St. Vincent dePaul Food Pantry in Perth Amboy. They are some of approximately 90 volunteers that serve over 300 needy families every Saturday morning with supplemental groceries.
REUNION
December 16, 2010
Seniors Enjoy Successful Season The inaugural season of the North Jersey Senior
Softball League has recently concluded their regular
season play.
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