Thanks for the clip.
Generally we find old-timers events in any sport disturbing -- an unsettling reminder of our own mortality
in seeing the strong, sleek athletic gods of our youth revealed as stooped, fat, balding, arthritic old men.
But we did see 75-year-old Luke Appling belt a legitimate home run at an old-timers' game in Buffalo in 1984.
That wuz somethin'!
PS -- Ian, you posted while we were typing. Appling had a great season in '84!
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