Baseballs Over The Hill Gang

It's Fascinating,Humorous,Interesting,Unbelieveable and A Classroom For Younger Ball Players

This Over The Hill Gang Playing Ball

Baseballs Over The Hill Gang just simply cannot outgrow their love of the game. These are the baseball players who have lived and breathed baseball and are truly baseball winners.

Baseball Players may grow older and some think bolder but the old siren call of summertime and baseball is in their blood.

You might say these ball players are "oldies but goodies."

Hard hitting, hard running, strong as an ox, fleet footed as an impala has come and gone. Old codger, slowed up and feeling fit as a fiddle, still thinks he has a game or two left. Folks it's all about baseball and the love of the game and the competition.

Now, as so many of these sandlot heroes are approaching retirement and looking forward to the life of leisure things happen. The old juices begin to crank up and the longing to hit that old rock one more time takes hold.

Rules of common sense dictate that those foregone days are gone. So just as if little Johnny had just been scolded, he sulks around and starts to scheme. He sees the girls out enjoying the game of "softball" and then just like Ford Motor Co.a light comes on and "he has an idea."

The girls have a softball league and by gump, every Church in town has a softball team. Why not ? Heck yes, there are a good many of our old high school baseball players still here in town.

It's not baseball but it's ball playing and I'll betcha "baseballs over the hill gang" could have a jam up team.

We could challenge Happy Hollow, Clay, Chalkville and Center Point to put together a team too.

Bet you a penny to a hole in a doughnut Argo, Roper Hill and Roebuck Plaza will want in our league.

Hey ! By golly, "an over the hill gang" softball league would really be a hoot. My old glove could use a replacement but I'm getting excited.

This entire preamble was a lead in to my real story I wanted to bring to you.

All around baseball fans and young players will truly enjoy watching and observing senior citizen softball playing leagues.

The speed and dexterity of super athletes is not what you will observe and learn from these games. After all they are "baseballs over the hill gang."

Many a good coach of high school and college level teams wishes all their players would go observe the past good athletes in action.

What you will find is the expert execution of the fundamentals of the game. You will see seasoned older ball players moving in deliberate and precise control to make the play.

The play will be effortless and smooth, no hurried frustration and making errors by too much haste. The play thinking takes place in their head well before the ball comes their way.

You see observing these past masters ply the trade is better than the video you purchased. Observe the smooth effortless release of the ball it is as if it never reached his glove before he had released his throw.

Young ball players, the lesson here is not how hard you can throw the ball it's how quick can you release the throw.

Watching senior league sofball players turn a double-play is something to behold. The fielding player will, smooth as silk, gather the ball into his glove while simultaneously giving way and with glove and ball and releasing it quicker than a magicians hands.

It's almost as if, when did he stop the ball? He didn't. He simply changed direction of the ball with his release toss.

His partner does not have to catch a hard throw. He simply meets the ball while sliding or dragging a foot across the 2nd sack.

This difference of meeting the ball and having to catch the ball is the key. Meeting the ball with glove and throwing hand in fluid motion, he releases his throw before you hear the hiccup.

Coaches harp on this type of playing techniques till blue in the face. What technique?

1. Give with the catch and release the ball. 2. Team play allows one to meet the ball (you shouldn't have to catch it). 3.Hard throws are not the answer, quick release is everything.

Yes, "baseballs over the hill gang" will by observance, teach more fundamentals than a library full of books. "Baseballs over the hill gang" are masters at the rudiments and the fundamenatals.

The way they are able to use footwork with no lost motion would put Fred Astaire's dance steps to shame.

The biggest myth of all ball playing is the idea that a ball should be thrown into the "next county" to get a runner out.

Apparently ball players get the idea that knocking the barn door off its hinges with the throw is a macho thing. What will happen time and time again, by young players, is their throws whiz so far over their teammates heads it is silly.

To my knowledge no ball player has ever played the game who stood 11 feet tall.

Ball players should know all about baseball and one cardinal rule "Make your throws playable." Teammates are not ten (10) feet tall so when you make that throw hit him in the letters

It would be ten xxxxxxxxxx times better to throw the ball rolling on the ground than to throw the ball over your teammates head.

This throwing like there is no tommorrow is particularly directed toward coaching of the outfielders throwing.

But let's come back a little and have a catcher rethink how he prepares to throw. All about baseball by "baseballs over the hill gang" is a study in perfection by catchers.

How many times have you seen a catcher throw so hard his face mask wraps around his neck or bounds halfway to the dugout?

The trick is not, look how hard I can throw but how quickly did he get rid of the ball?

Now you might just challenge me on this issue of hard throwing. The controlled hard throw is a baseball scouts dream come true when he finds a kid with all the tools of greatness.

This baseball farming and developing baseball players on farm teams is all about baseball.

No real danger a scout will sign "baseballs over the hill gang" to a long term deal.

The point is the time used to release a throw is 10 times more essential than how hard it's thrown. The time spent watching and studying "baseballs over the hill gang" at play is not for baseball fans only.

Ball players, young and old, will pick up invaluable knowledge of how plays should be executed.

Playing baseball as a youngster or even at the snow capped prime of baseballs over the hill gang, just the act of playing the game, has made you a baseball winner.

All baseball and the thrill, excitement and joy of hitting, fielding, catching and throwing with the best of the best teammates in the game is one of life's treasures.

Do not short change my "baseballs over the hill gang." Their entire being is in the game.

Their memories can carry you back to such games as the one in Milwaukee County Stadium and a Game For The Ages back on May 26,1959.

Another standard slick as a button twists some of the old timers will add to their pitching skills is the use of throwing a knuckle ball.

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