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Welcome to the Senior Professional Baseball Association, where the crack of the bat meets the creak of the bone. Founded this year by Arizona real estate developer Jim Morley, the S.P.B.A. is into its first three-month season, fielding eight Florida teams of ex-major leaguers 35 or older (catchers may be 32). Most of the superstars are missing: Reggie Jackson is occupied with his classic autos, Jim Palmer with his underwear, Pete Rose with hawking his tarnished name. But enough good ole boys of summer are participating to help ease the winter of discontent every baseball addict endures between...
Aging athletes know that fans will pay to see them doing what they once did best. Now Florida has senior baseball, where the crack of the bat meets the creak of the bone...
...Tonight, Scott Gilly got us going right off the bat," Roby said. "He sticks a couple of jumpers and all of a sudden, shots are easier to make and the inside game opens up. It was the same thing in the second half, when [Co-Captain Fred] Schernecker buried the two buckets...
...disaster. But he has no dearth of accomplices. There are the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain of Arizona, John Glenn of Ohio, Donald Riegle of Michigan and Alan Cranston of California -- who received $1.3 million in contributions from Keating and went to bat for him against federal regulators. The five sank deeper into trouble last week when the Senate ethics committee appointed outside counsel to investigate. The FBI also expanded its Keating probe to include questions about the Senators' involvement...
Unfortunately, playwright Christopher Durang seems convinced that the audience will not understand his message unless it is beaten into them, and his script frequently employs a baseball bat where a fly-swatter would do. The result is a production which, while entertaining, is pretentious and overblown...