I rarely read it, but today's Tribune sports page has two items of interest.
First, Casper is getting, for the third time, a non youth league baseball team. The first game will be played on May 25.
This team will be a collegiate league team. Apparently that means that its a wooden bat team and that the teams are made up of college players who play during the spring and summer.
Let's hope this one sticks. Our last two teams; the Cutthroats (named for the native trout) and the Rockies/Ghosts had some loyal fans but were moved. Its hard not to note that with each addition we step one step further away from the major leagues but still. . . and indeed maybe this one will work.
Casper, it should be noted, had a vibrant adult baseball league in earlier eras. Indeed our packing house sponsored one, named of course the Packers. And the schools, decades ago, had high school teams. There are still really active youth leagues, but that's all.
The other news was that boxing great Jake LaMotta died.
A truly great middleweight and light heavyweight boxer from the golden age of boxing, he is perhaps best known today to most folks due to Robert DiNiro's portrayal of him in the movie Raging Bull, the greatest boxing movie ever made. Married seven times and known to be volatile inside and outside the ring, in some ways he symbolized a certain aspect of boxing when it really mattered as a sport. Here's hoping that he finds rest as he's passed on.
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