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SUMMER 1999 STATISTICS
Tampa Bay 65 & Over Senior Softball · from the Stat Man's ledger
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These are the numbers for the summer season, twenty games a team, June through August. They come out of all six teams' scorebooks, which the managers hand me after every game, and where Ruth was at the field I checked them against her book too. If you think I've shorted you a hit, write me and tell me which game, and I'll look it up. I've changed four numbers this year on appeal. I've turned down eleven.

Minimum 40 at-bats to make the list. Ages are as of the end of the season.
LEAGUE LEADERS
Batting Average
1. Jackson Stumpf, Cool Cats .714
2. Earl Tufts, Cool Cats .667
3. Harry Bedell, Cool Cats .648

Hits
1. Jackson Stumpf 50
2. Harry Bedell 46
3. Harlan Billups 45 		Runs Batted In
1. Jackson Stumpf 38
2. Earl Tufts 35
3. Harlan Billups 34

Home Runs
1. Earl Tufts 6
2. Wiley Doran 5
3. Stumpf and Billups, 4 each

Player (age)
Team, position		 G AB H HR RBI AVG
Jackson Stumpf (69)
Cool Cats, 1B		207050438.714
Earl Tufts (65)
Cool Cats, LF		196644635.667
Harry Bedell (65)
Cool Cats, SS		207146227.648
Harlan Billups (69)
Mariners, C		207045434.643
Bernard Hegwood (71)
Rockets, SS		206944329.638
Wiley Doran (67)
Hawks, 3B		206843533.632
John Dahlstrom (70)
Saints, 3B		206942330.609
Robert Caesar (78)
Bakers, P		206640126.606
Phyllis Palmer (66)
Cool Cats, 2B		185835014.603
Bernie Moen (71)
Hawks, CF		175734119.596
Jack Rhoads (80)
Rockets, 2B		206840018.588
Jasper Elston (74)
Mariners, 1B		196337222.587
Virginia Boerner (70)
Saints, 2B		206538016.585
Marvin Deltoro (75)
Bakers, 2B		206739021.582
Ruth Goodlett (74)
Bakers, RF		165029011.580
Michael Skelton (85)
Mariners, LF		206435117.547
Joe Bowerman (82)
Saints, LF		185932013.542
Ned Coker (74)
Rockets, P		154826010.542
Arthur Fleshman (88)
Bakers, SS		196031012.517
Charles Nix (83)
Hawks, P		206433015.516
Bob Caesar is the only pitcher in the league who hits over .600, and he wants that mentioned. Billie Westerfield of the Hawks was 20 for 34 (.588) when we lost him in July. He's not on the list because he didn't get to 40 at-bats. He'd have made it easy.

The Iron Man: Jack Rhoads, 80

Every inning of all twenty Rockets games, at second base, at eighty years of age. No courtesy runner, no rest, no complaints, and his team went 6 and 14, which would have given most men a reason to take a Thursday off. Jack says he has a knee brace, a bottle of liniment and a wife who wants him out of the house, and that between the three of them he'll never miss a game. Second basemen are a tough breed. I say that with no bias whatsoever.

The Oldest Home Run: Michael Skelton, 85

Thursday, July 22, 1999, Mariners against the Saints, bottom of the third, one on. Mike got hold of a pitch from Donald Winget and lifted it over the fence in left, about 270 feet. Mike stood at the plate and watched it like he couldn't believe it either, and then he took his time going around, and both benches came out to meet him at the mat. It was his first ball over a fence since 1952, he says, in a church league in Kentucky.

That makes him the oldest man ever to hit one over the fence in this league. The old record belonged to Charles Nix, who did it at 80 in the winter season of 1997, and who shook Mike's hand and then told everybody that his went farther.

Summer Awards
  • Batting Champion: Jackson Stumpf, Cool Cats, .714
  • Iron Man: Jack Rhoads, Rockets
  • Oldest Home Run: Michael Skelton, Mariners
  • Comeback of the Year: Bernie Moen, Hawks, who had his knee replaced in February and was back in center field by the middle of June
  • Best Glove: Arthur Fleshman, Bakers. Again.
  • Sportsmanship (voted by the umpires): Virginia Boerner, Saints, who has never argued a call in nine years and who brings the umpires lemonade
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Last updated September 23, 1999