For the love of the game!

[Ken Stallings]

One of the best sports stories I have read!

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5218228

The short version is a brand new team met a very strong one. The strong team was trouncing the weak team. They offered to forfeit the game so that the mercy rule would not be invoked. But instead the weak team decided to.

Why?

Because that allowed the game to end and the strong team to spend the rest of the time giving ad-hoc training to the weak team, plus organizing an effort to provide them surplus used equipment.

Ken

[Cazzie]

One of the best deeds in a woman's spin-off of the best team sport ever created! Super little short story Ken. Made my morning. Up for F-1, watching GP2 A day of racing, Indy and Charlotte World 600.:ernae:

And speaking of women and softball/baseball, Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek, called "the fanciest-fielding first baseman I've ever seen, man or woman." by former Yankee first baseman Wally Pipp, passed away this past Monday at the age of 84. She inspired the role played by Geena Davis in the movie "A League Of their Own".

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/22/local/la-me-dorothy-kamenshek-20100522

Caz

[Snuffy]

What a great thing this is! Congrats to both teams!

This is what true sportsman/womanship is all about. Its not the money like the pro's make it appear, just so they can act like overpaid spoiled brats.

Minor confession here ... excsuse me while I wipe my eyes!

:applause::applause::applause: