Top 10 Reasons We Play Baseball
Ten Things About the PWBL That Make Karen McGovern (PWBL 6-year veteran) Smile:
10. Becky's, Lois's, and Charlene's kids at the games.
9. The "first family" of the PWBL--Joe, Cathy, and Cindi Lukomski.
8. Jim Toth's pants.
7. Lauren "Some cheese with that whine?" Wiggins
6. Malcolm's room at the Microtel and the Bob Evans at the DC tournament.
5. Mary Alice receiving the hitting award at the Delaware tournament in 2004.
4. Narda throwing out Laura Brenneman trying to steal third.
3. Charlene pitching four games in three days (every tourney??).
2. Mel "Big Guns" Gibbons crushing the ball over the left fielder's head TWICE on Labor Day.
and...
1. TIE: Lisa Blackhurst catching a foul pop bunt and throwing to third at the Fourth of July tournament in Carney's Point, NJ.
1. TIE: The Mills sisters' battery no hits the DC Thunder to win the DC tournament 1-0 in 2008.
Sheila Sikorski's (PWBL 4-year veteran) Top Ten Reasons for Playing Baseball:
10. So I can watch men sunbathing in right field (and get hit by fly balls!).
9. So my teammates can use an hourglass instead of a stopwatch as I run to first base.
8. So I can pound my chest and scream, “Yeah, I’m the oldest, I’m the OLDEST!”
7. So my mom can have another occasion to say, “I despair of you ever becoming a lady!”
6. So my nieces and nephews have more stories to tell about their eccentric aunt.
5. So my boyfriend can enjoy more afternoons in the weeds (and the cans!).
4. So I can experience the true meaning of being on the bad end of a “mercy” rule.
3. So I can be one of the region’s few liberal rednecks (and redhands and rednoses).
2. So I will flirt with another possible visit to another wonderful emergency room.
and...
1. So I can feel the crack of the bat through my arms and back and FINALLY get a clean base hit!!