November 2006 - Ft Myers, FL
Paul was invited to play with the South Dakota Pheasants Over 60 baseball team in the Roy Hobbs Wooden Bat tournament in Ft. Myers, FL from November 12 -19th. Games are played at a number of fields in Ft Myers, but mainly at the Twins spring training site, the Lee County Sports Complex, and the Boston Red Sox fields.
We left MN on the 7th of November and drove to Morton, IL where we spent the night with Cathy and Norm Durflinger. We were joined for chicken dinner at Spooners, a local watering hole, by Vickie Ayres who was in Morton helping daughter Tracy care for her kids as she deals with her store and caring for husband, Monte, who is suffering with cancer.
After dinner, the Durflingers hosted desert at their house. Thanks to the Oestmanns, who brought very tasty brownies,pumpkin bars and ice cream, Triggs, Kinneys, and Christensens who spent sometime with us there.
On Wednesday we drove to Dalton, GA where we spent the night in a Comfort Inn.
Thursday, we drove on in to Ellenton, FL and stayed that night and the next with Aunt Jessie and Unk Lea. We did some repairs around their home and generally relaxed on Friday.
Saturday, we drove to Ft Myers. After checking in at Hammond Stadium, we went to our hotel in Ft Myers Beach where we waited for the welcome cookout for the players and others back at the ball park at 6:30 pm. The championship game for the AAAA Over 50 teams, who were finishing their week on Saturday, was also played in Hammond Stadium that night. So, we got a plate of grub and watched part of the game.
The rest of the team arrived between about 9:30 and midnight.
Sunday the team met up at noon and headed to our game at Lee County Sports Complex, field 2. We played the Georgia Classics and came away with a 3-2 victory. Paul batted 10th in a "shared batting order" concept. What this meant was he shared the 10th spot in a 12 man batting order with another player. And, since the other player batted 1st in this "sharing" arrangement, Paul got only one at bat. BUT, he made the most of it with a sharp single to right center. Unfortunately, trying to stretch it into a double, he was thrown out by a perfect throw from the cutoff man to the shortstop.
The team was not happy with getting only 8 total hits against questionable pitching, but was still quite pleased with a "W"
Dinner was ribs at a joint just down the road from the hotel.
Tomorrow we play the Western Silver Foxes at the Boston Red Sox Player Development Park.
We left MN on the 7th of November and drove to Morton, IL where we spent the night with Cathy and Norm Durflinger. We were joined for chicken dinner at Spooners, a local watering hole, by Vickie Ayres who was in Morton helping daughter Tracy care for her kids as she deals with her store and caring for husband, Monte, who is suffering with cancer.
After dinner, the Durflingers hosted desert at their house. Thanks to the Oestmanns, who brought very tasty brownies,pumpkin bars and ice cream, Triggs, Kinneys, and Christensens who spent sometime with us there.
On Wednesday we drove to Dalton, GA where we spent the night in a Comfort Inn.
Thursday, we drove on in to Ellenton, FL and stayed that night and the next with Aunt Jessie and Unk Lea. We did some repairs around their home and generally relaxed on Friday.
Saturday, we drove to Ft Myers. After checking in at Hammond Stadium, we went to our hotel in Ft Myers Beach where we waited for the welcome cookout for the players and others back at the ball park at 6:30 pm. The championship game for the AAAA Over 50 teams, who were finishing their week on Saturday, was also played in Hammond Stadium that night. So, we got a plate of grub and watched part of the game.
The rest of the team arrived between about 9:30 and midnight.
Sunday the team met up at noon and headed to our game at Lee County Sports Complex, field 2. We played the Georgia Classics and came away with a 3-2 victory. Paul batted 10th in a "shared batting order" concept. What this meant was he shared the 10th spot in a 12 man batting order with another player. And, since the other player batted 1st in this "sharing" arrangement, Paul got only one at bat. BUT, he made the most of it with a sharp single to right center. Unfortunately, trying to stretch it into a double, he was thrown out by a perfect throw from the cutoff man to the shortstop.
The team was not happy with getting only 8 total hits against questionable pitching, but was still quite pleased with a "W"
Dinner was ribs at a joint just down the road from the hotel.
Tomorrow we play the Western Silver Foxes at the Boston Red Sox Player Development Park.
posted by Paul and Joan at 7:11 PM
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Nice work, Smith! Keep those hits a-coming!
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