Harbour Ball checklist

The Fitzroy Harbour Men's Fastball League is a recreational 10-team loop and has a few unique characteristics. I have written about a few of these things before.

Now, from this year's experience so far with "Harbour Ball", Fitzroy Fastball presents a checklist.

• 70 year old ump using old school chest protector? CHECK
• Shortstop smoking a Players in the middle of the inning? CHECK
• Pitcher wearing wind pants, with the sleeves cut off from his league issued T-shirt? CHECK
• A neighbourhood dog that got onto the field that we just played around for half an inning because he was too hard to catch? CHECK
• An assortment of softballs in use in the same game i.e. one Kmaster, one Red Dot and an old white unidentifiable ball, possibly a 177S? CHECK
• A player that locked his spikes in the car so instead played the first two innings in a pair of slippers? CHECK (note: he now has a nickname, which took quite a while to come up with - "Slippers")
• A team short a fielder, so 10 year old Fitzroy Junior plays right field and actually makes a couple of plays impressing all attendees? CHECK
• A 53 year old pitcher half-baked from a day on the golf course throwing 15 straight knuckle balls in an inning? CHECK

This is why I hate missing Harbour Ball - you never know what will happen.