This baseball league does have some players that play softball as well and almost all of the players have friends who play softball. As well they should be, if you attend a men s league softball game and then shoot over to watch a men s league baseball game the differences are obvious. Softball is a base to base game. The good softball teams have guys that can slap a base hit followed by the big men that hit home run bombs over the 250-foot fence in the outfield. They have the wooden bats and the pine tar that George Brett made famous.
Teams bunt, steal, hit and run and suicide squeeze.
The fields are major-league distance all around and everything about the game that you remember from your youth and high school is evident in this league. I think a majority of the guys love the game, Mahopac catcher Doug Lugbauer said. In some cases we re all trying to recapture our youth. As far as not liking softball, there is no truth to that. The reason I play hardball is because I am a catcher.