Why it's hard to find new players

True story: There was a big blue Cadillac parked right in the middle of Nance Bradds Field this morning; apparently there was a Father/Child two-on-two basketball program going on in Smith gym.  So I went in to see if he could find the owner and ask for it to be moved.

In the gym there was a gentleman tallying up the team standings, and feeling a definite kinship with this discerning Man of Stats, I told him I was seeking the owner of the blue Cadillac parked outside.  The man shrugged and said he had no idea, lowering my esteem for him.  But next to him was a boy who said, "Blue Cadillac? That's ours." The boy then called to his grandfather who came over.

The grandfather asked me if the lot was being closed or if there was going to be work there.  I told him no, and that if he could just back it up a couple of lengths, it would be out of the way for the group of us about to play Wiffle Ball.  The Grandfather said, "Oh, yeah!  I read about you guys in the Register! You had the awards dinner. I liked how you did that."

He then very happily moved his car and Peter signed autographs "for his grandson."

Then we played four chilly innings of spring training wiff!!  Matt and Kurt took on the assembled faculty of Springboro High School: Peter and Rookie of the Year candidate Kevin Gutekunst!

Well the homestanding Lumberjacks weren't terribly hospitable to the visiting Panthers, running up a score of 16 to nothing by game's end.  Mosser was in midsummer form at the plate, making only 2 or 3 of the outs all morning (out of 12 total) and being only a triple shy of the cycle.  Matt made those other 9 or 10 outs but along the way did hit for the cycle including a Grand Slam (not involving the basketball hoops).  Most, but not all of these runs were off new guy Kevin, who we hope will return despite having to face the Kurt Mosser, two-time defending League MVP, from the batters box and the rubber in his debut.

For the most part everyone was working on finding the right release point and getting their timing back in the batters box. So there was a game but no stats.  Here's where we stand:

Name	T	G
Mosser	3	1
Eldridge	2	0
Mackintosh	2	0
Anderson	1	0
Baker, T	1	0
Berwald	1	1
Cebulash	1	0
Lindsay	1	1
Meindl	1	0
Gutekunst	0	1

Typical Cactus League score.