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Bees & Pirates; mercy mercy
Since Sunday evening it’s been back to work, and having fire school cancelled on Monday evening, and a softball game where the Bees crushed the Pirates. This past Tuesday the Bees played a team called the Pirates at DeWitt Clinton Park. I had to get there on my own. While the 49th Street cross town bus was available, I decided to hoof it from Park Avenue to 11th Avenue and, as usual beat the bus, got some exercise, and saved $2.00! Once there I was given the usual task of keeping score, and being an extra hitter. We were the visiting team, and led from the first inning. We went ahead 6-1 by the second inning, and eventually the score was 18-1! As is the custom, the Mercy Rule was invoked after inning #5. However, with a large lead, besides coming up to bat as an extra hitter (and got a hit, advanced to 3rd, and then asked for a pinch runner so I would not keel over when I eventually headed to home) I had a chance to come up play in right field. No fly balls came to me, but I managed to retrieve a ball that got past the second baseman, throw it into the infield, and made it possible to snag a runner in a run down. The final score was 18-2, and the Bees notched another run. After the game, I went over to talk to some of the Pirates, and asked which company sponsors them. It turns out that nobody does. They are a group of friends who started to play as a pickup team and eventually organized and joined the Yorkville Sports Association. From 1936 through 1940 the headline "Bees Rout Pirates" could have been a major league headline! During those 5 seasons the Boston (now Atlanta) Braves were called the Boston Bees, in vain hopes that the teams fortunes would improve. It did not work, so this past Tuesday was probably the only time that we could run a headline like "Bees rout Pirates 18-2". After the game we headed over to Dixie’s on 11th Avenue for some beer and burgers.
  
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