Major League Wiffleball
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There comes a time when most of us realize we’re not going to make the Major Leagues. Some of us might try softball as a replacement, but we soon find out that it doesn’t match the excitement of baseball. So we return to the ‘home version’ that we grew up playing in our backyard — wiffleball.

Watching the MLB playoffs, I’m reminded of these childhood times, and wonder if that’s how my interest in wiffleball was formed. Back then, I looked up to players like Mike Scioscia (left), and although I’m a lot taller now, I look up to him even more.

The last time we saw Tommy Lasorda, in March 2007, he was enjoying a spring training game at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Florida, and posed for this photo holding a wiffleball. Tonight, for his 81st birthday, he’ll be in San Diego enjoying the Monday Night Football game between the New York Jets …