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G-Fafif Jun 02 2020 08:16 PM

“I'd hear it every year,” says Ben Walker of the Associated Press. “Don't those guys have jobs?” Yes. But they never let those jobs impose on their softball careers. Fred Lief, who pitched wire-to-wire in the Press League—which is to say that he played every season between 1976 and 2018 for one of the two wire services, the AP or UPI—says, “There is no other institution in my life, not a job, not my marriage, that endured as long.” From SI, a deep, deep dive into the history of the Press League — serious softball in Central Park. https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/06/02/new-york-press-league-softball?suid=5cc1cb2c3f92a475c02227e0&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SI%20Extra%20060220&utm_term=SI%20Extra%20-%20USE%20THIS%20-%20List

MFS62 Jun 03 2020 08:50 AM Re: Press to Play

That was great. I'm sure many of them played softball better than they wrote, and vice versa. I remember watching those games and playing on those fields (not in that league). Thanks. Later

LWFS Jun 05 2020 12:09 AM Re: Press to Play

We used to play later in the day-- 4-6 pm-ish-- when I worked for the New York Red Cross, so we wouldn't see these guys... but we would see some of the New York Media Softball Leaguers (formerly populated with Conde Nasties and such, now full of Buzzfeeds and the like). The dominant team? High Times. Like, PERENNIALLY. We used to play exhibition games with them every now and again, and they'd MURDER us. CRAZY defense, IIRC.