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ODE TO SENIOR SOFTBALL

from *BUILDING BRIDGES - not walls by Steve Shapiro

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There are more than 1.5 million active senior softball players in the US and that number is growing as baby boomers come into the market. Softball is the number one men's team sport in America.

I have been playing in the Hayward Senior Softball League for 6 years. Last week the League had a memorial picnic for the wife of one of our players. She had attended all of her husband's games and had been our best cheerleader. Players die, get sick, get injured - like life. I have met people from all walks of life that I would otherwise never have met. We share at least one thing - a love for this game that we have been playing since childhood. And we have fun!

I found out yesterday that our pitcher is 90 years old! I would have guessed 74. As you get older, and drop out of the workforce, you start to lose your connections with people. Softball is a great way to meet people and stay active. Our shortstop might have been a doctor, a policeman, a factory worker, a guitar player. We rarely talk about our past work lives. We are ten years old out on the field - with not a care in the world, except maybe "how many outs are there?"

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from *BUILDING BRIDGES - not walls, track released May 24, 2018

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Steve Shapiro Oakland, California

Steve Shapiro has composed music for hundreds of radio and TV commercials, documentary films, infomercials and other TV programs. He was the music director at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, which produced hundreds of award-winning educational films and recordings. He has a BA in Music from Brown University and an MA in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. ... more

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