The league's rookie players are 50, the oldest is 89. Most played as young women and men, but retired their gloves to basements long ago. It's a Monday with the feel of a Saturday in June. The dusty red diamond looks as fine as powdered sugar. Spectators watch from bleachers and golf carts.
Ball park hot dogs are the delicacy of the day.
This is life from now until March. Men play one diamond. Ladies take the other. Their pink and lavender T-shirts give the field the palette of an Easter egg, but their game is far from girly. They scramble in the outfield.