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Too Old to pitch

ok, I pitch for my softball teams, for many years. I would generally walk only one or two batters at most. I could generally hit with good accuracy the corners of the strike zone. I only recall just one time that I was desperate to just through a strike. That was a playoff game in which we had played a few games prior. After that game I felt so horrible, I really for the first time felt, the pressure of letting down my teammates while on the mound. Well last year I started playing again after taking a couple of years off to watch the kids. The team has a pitcher so I was cool with that. I played 2nd base mostly, when I don't pitch. With this team, I played Third base, First base and catcher. The pitcher is about 60 years old, I really could not believe that he was playing, but he is a good pitcher just a bit slow around the bases. When this year started Tom, the pitcher decided that it was time to get me into the games. I got to pitch half games with him ( I did pitch a few games l...