6/11/98
Softball: To Nurture the Sparrows
Dear People,
It is Friday morning and we are still SEVERAL players short of a quorum. It grieves me to no end that I might be forced to call off tomorrow's game, on the very week that our people are on the verge of returning to the bucolic shelter of our Cordonecis homeland, replete as it is with natural sapwoods, sturdy oaks and the grass-covered larvae of a billion softball-loving insects. Indeed, this is not the time to feign oblivious indifference to the emotional needs of an entire ecosystem. Make that commit; do it for the Birch-covered deciduous trees of center left field, who are forced to endure long and lonely months without the simple grace of a little athletic camaraderie...Ray
PS: It seems so tawdry to have to resort to this, but apparently many of you have forgotten that today is the 118th anniversary of the Winchester Ruby Leg's 1-0 victory over Cleveland, in which the legendary J. Lee Richmond pitched the first perfect game in the history of professional baseball. Obviously many of our own pitchers have perfected their skills under Lee's enduring influence (for example, take last week's 22-11 'battle of the mound'), and thus it just seems that a little acknowledgment of this legacy would be only appropriate. So make that commit; Do it for both those stupid trees in center-left field, AND J. Lee Richmond of the Winchester Ruby Legs.
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