mars vs The Holy Rollers of Harvest Time

Pretty sure this is the first write-up. They developed in length and content as time went along!

April 20, 1992

(apologies that the stats look like they were formatted by a drunken sailor. Working on that!)

Mars and Co started the season right where it left off last year, winning in extra innings.  Without any pregame batting practice, the bats started out hot with 10 runs in the first four innings opening up a commanding 10-3 lead.  Al “Crispy” Carmona decided that the game was in hand at that point so he left for Rio, taking the bats with him.  Our dominating defense also falterHared and let Harvest Time score 5 runs in the sixth and two in the seventh to send us into extra innings.  Both teams went scoreless in the eighth.  With daylight running out, Mark Magers Leaguer led off with a solid single.  Ron Walters got on on an error and Brett Spanky Reiner singled home the go ahead run with Dis going to third.  Steve Rio Healy got the job done hitting a long fly ball to score Ron.  Romeo Anderson grounded to short for the second out, bringing up rookie sensation and Game MVP, Mike “Where should I hit it this time” Laub (3-4, 4 RBIs and 2 intentional walks).  Afraid of his bat which had crushed the ball three times, and dribbled one to the pitcher’s mound, they walked him, to get to Rob Thumper Thuemmel, who only lived up to his name be getting thumped by the casinos in Atlantic City earlier in the day.   Thumper ground out to end the rally, but the Mars defense held on for the nine inning victory.

Faces in the Crowd:  Zac Fisher, we thank you for your support

Next Game:  Tuesday, April 28, 5:45 at Byram Shore versus Berkeley Group

GAME 1         Mars 12: Harvest Time 10 at WGCC 4/20/92      

                  G   AB   R    H   RBI   D    T   HR   B    AVG   SLUG

Andersen   1     5      2    2    1      0      1    0      1     0.400     0.800

Barton       1     3      0    0     0      0      0    0      0     0.000     0.000

Boothe      1     5      0    2     1      1      0     0     0     0.400     0.600

Browne     1     5      0    0     0      0      0     0     0     0.000     0.000

Carmona   1     2      0    1     0      0      0     0     0     0.500     0.500

Healy        1     5      2    2      2     0      0     0     0     0.400     0.400

Kimble      1    3      0    1       0     0      0     0     0     0.333     0.330

Laub         1     4      2    3       4     3      0     0     2     0.750     1.500

Magers     1     2      1     1      0     0      0     0     0     0.500     0.500

Reiner      1     5      1     1      1     0      0      0     1     0.200     0.200

Thuemmel1     5      1     1      1     0      0      0    1     0.200      0.200

Walters     1     6      3     3      0     1      0      0    0     0.500      0.667

TEAM      1     50   12   17    10    5      1      0    5     0.340      0.480   

             

When We Were Young

I was looking through some old files recently, trying to find a document for taxes. And what should I see in the folders list but a folder named Softball. So I opened it, and discovered a bunch of softball game write-ups from the early 1990s, chronicling the exploits of the mars & co softball team in Greenwich, CT. I read one and had a few good laughs, remembering the summer evenings we could go play ball as wonderful oases of gloves and bases instead of grinding away on activity-based costing.

I asked Linda how most easily I could put some of this historical record online in case others needed an occasional diversion. The result is this blog. I am sure there are many more skilled than I who could do this better, with much cooler functionality, but you will have to do with what Bob Davis can accomplish.

Before we sold our house in Oakland and moved to Mexico (don't tell Al I am here), one chore was for me to collate all our physical photos into labeled Ziploc bags and send them off to a photo scanner in Oregon, I think. It was a weird feeling when I got them more or less properly labeled, saved on my laptop, and backed up in the cloud as well, that I then took 30+ years of photo memories to the trash can. But it was needed to happen so we could start to vagabond a little, and it turned out to be well worth it.

All that said, I found I had not so many as I expected of the softball games. I know for a fact, as referenced in one of the write-ups, that we had a team picture in 1992, taken by Zac Fisher. I have it somewhere, but cannot locate it. I think it is in storage in NorCal right now. If you have a copy, please scan and email it to me so I can add it here! Any other pics you might have are also welcome. But it was a LONG time ago, nearly 30 years.

That also applies to any newsletters you might for reasons no one knows have an old newsletter I don't have. My files are about 38 Word docs, covering 1992 and 1993 - our meteoric rise from the D league in 1991 to Champions of the Greenwich Industrial B League in 1993! But 1994 forward, I have no files, alas.

I hope some of these make you laugh. As I said above, they did me.

PS - there are Top 10 Lists floating around out there, too, that will make it to the blog as they surface. One I know I have for sure is titled Jimericks, compiled by Jim Andersen's loving co-workers upon his departure from the company. Stay tuned!

PSS - I know the background picture on the landing page is a baseball, finding a softball is on the to do list.

Bob and Butt Splice in our snazzy uniforms