Fred Dresser
Do you wonder just what makes up the PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association (PCSSA)? The PCSSA is made up of individuals (men and women) who come from many walks of life. We have veterans; first responders; financial, medical, and legal professionals; construction contractors; teachers; scientists; and the list goes on.
What drives these individuals to pick up a bat, glove, and ball at ages where many of them should be relaxing and enjoying themselves rather than running around a baseball field?
The word “lure” is defined as “the tempting of a person to do something by offering some form of award.”
The question then becomes, what tempts the individuals who played baseball in their younger years in the streets, alleys, and open fields to continue playing this game? The answer is quite simple. They play for the love of the game.
Is that it? No, there are also the friendships that are developed and the camaraderie that is experienced among those individuals. This game of softball allows them to pick up where they left off after their life journeys took them down different roads.
These individuals come from all over this country as well as Canada. These are not young men or women that play this game today as the ages range from the 40s to the 80s. As mentioned before, they not only play for the love of the game, but for bragging rights as well. The one thing they do have in common is that they have a 20-year-old brain that tells a 50-, 60-, 70-, or 80-year-old body that you can still do this. Well, the body looks back at the brain and says “okay brain, get ready for the pain.”
The mission statement for the PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association states the following:
To promote senior slow pitch softball in PebbleCreek for exercise and recreation in an athletic environment designed to sustain a high level of fellowship, sportsmanship, and friendly competition
There is another statement or motto at the field that simply says:
You don’t stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stopped playing.
To see what this lure of the PCSSA is, simply come down to the Field of Dreams and watch it unfold.