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Dan Gross told me that the annual One Pitch-Slow Pitch Tournament at the Rumford Point baseball field was happening right on schedule Saturday. The weather, your ideal, pluperfect, heavenly late-summer- in-Western Maine weather, was a plus, of course.Six teams competed for the prize, a trophy the winning team's sponsor ($120 per team) could display until next year. Teams came from Buckfield, Mexico (Tommy Guns), Bethel (Doctors), Rumford (State Farm and two others).
For the uninitiated - would that be you? - a One Pitch-Slow Pitch softball game goes like this: one pitch per batter up; if it's a ball, batter walks; a strike, the batter's out; a hit, run for it. A slow pitch is thrown so the ball makes a 6 to 12-foot arc before it reaches the plate. There are just seven innings to a game and with the one-pitch hitch the games move fast. Dan thought there'd be 10 or 11 games before the afternoon's winner was declared. At 3 p.m., the Bethel Docs were battling Rumford's State Farm team; the winner would face Rumford Point in the playoffs.See the full content of this document
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Whither Weather
Dan began the tournament tradition three years ago when he succeeded his brother Brian as president of the Rumford Point Athletic Association. T...
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