Roy Hobbs Tournament November 10, 2010

Today, the Pheasants defeated the Rhode Island Silver Fox 19 - 7 in 7 innings. (This was our 3rd consecutive 7-inning game!) The game was played at City of Palms field, the spring training stadium of the Boston Red Sox.

The Pheasants started 8 Hall of Fame ballplayers; 7 from South Dakota and 1 from Minnesota.

Lee Goldammer was on the mound.




Bob Beattie (middle with one of our other catchers, Kenny Foster (left) and Howie Bich) was behind the plate.




Gary Croon played 1st (Howie Bich behind him in right.)



Tyrone Wacker (from Minnesota) was at 2nd



Red Loecker was at shortstop.



Charlie Feiner (on left with manager Bob Kopel) was at 3rd.



Tom Gordon started in left, but yours truly replaced him in the second inning for medical reasons.



Howie Bich was in right.



Adrian Mohr, Ty Wacker, Jack Sayles, Wayne Shjegstad and yours truly watch the action from the top step of our dugout.

As the game wore on, substitutions were made.

Mike Held went to second base.




Dave Wheeler pitched the 7th inning.



Jack Sayles went to 3rd


Ray Johnson went to right


Nick Lumby played center the entire game.



Ginnie Beatty is our diligent scorekeeper.



Howie Bich, Paul, Bob Beatty and Lee Goldammer after the game.


We play the Midwest Saints tomorrow at 5:30 PM. The game was supposed to be played at 10 AM but for some reason was switched. Personally, I don't like playing under the lights very much. Hard for this old man to see the balls in the lights. This will be our last game of pool play. We will find out later tomorrow night where we are seeded and whom and when we play on Friday.