Lone Stars won 3 rings in Arizona. We had over 150 players participate this year.

To minimize, prevent injuries at home plate, ALL catchers are to allow a path for runner at home plate. DO NOT block home plate. Umpires enforce this rule. Tell your catchers to provide a path for runner.

It seems the Heat Wave will persist for a bit longer. Note the information on the August Schedule in order to minimize exposure. Also, NSLL is looking to have workdays on the 19th and 26th at their park. I have asked that they allow us to address the big field. Approval pending.

The Artificial Turf has been delivered to the field. Maybe another two weeks. But be certain: NO MORE METAL SPIKES AT CC. ONLY TURF SHOES!!

We will have guys going to the World Series get on a field between now and the time we all leave.

Congrats to the Lonestars for winning the 2023 Labor Day Texas Cup in Houston, Texas. A big tip of the hat to Bill Rector, et al, for a job well done. They swept all 5 games.

We will not play on Mother's Day. Expect to play Memorial Day Weekend, Father's Day and July 4th weekend.

An Update: 64 years, & 3 months old is one JJ Bailey who is the oldest League Player to hit an In-the-Park home run. Now everyone knows.

So far Jerry Spencer remains the oldest member to hit a home run. In order for his head not swell, need someone older to de-throne him. A little known fact for SAMSBL is the "older" players are monitored for a rare accomplishment.

And that is hitting home runs, rare, very rare. But miracles do happen every once and a while.

Some history: the first "old" guy to hit a home run was Pete Powell at Sanchez-Spencer when he was 57. The 2nd was Tom Keyser at Blanco at 58. The 3rd was Nelson Wolff at Texas State when he was 64.

And now, at 66 years and TWO months, is the current record holder, Jerry Spencer at Blanco 2 weeks ago.

He is thinking his ball rolled a total distance of nearly 500 feet from Home plate. That record is 617 feet.

Some 2024 details

We MAY have a new site to play baseball in 2024. It is Lanier High School. It has lights. So we can expand. Over the next month all managers will be invited to see the location. It means we can add more teams and play more Sunday games and some Saturday games. We will have test run in December to work out the details with the staff. We are working with Mike Tabhan s League on a trial basis. We will play some games with a team out of Austin, a younger group. We plan December 3, 10, and 17, weather permitting. Managers will be notified on a case by case basis.

We are looking to have a 50+ division and a 60+ division and a younger division. Expect to play 15 - 18 games. We start in March and will end in September. Details will be published here during late December and early January.

We will have a Managers meeting on 11 December to address all pertinent information for the 2024 season. Location to be CC Field at 7 pm.

I will ask each Manager for a $1,000 deposit that night. I expect about $3,500 per team for 2024.

Several new teams will join us.

The LEGENDS concept of 70+ was quite a success. And we will continue the practice. But we will modify our LEGENDS approach to address a growing problem: AGE. It seems that many of us are "falling off the table" as far as skill and ability is concerned. We are not near as good as we think we are!

To address this situation, I will declare the LEGENDS League for those "C" players who still want to play, because you are vertical, yet will not see a lot of field time on a better squad. In short, you should stop, but like me, you still want to "suit up". So I will create a League for us "C" players to be on the field every game.

Details to follow.