Gator Dugout Days June 15, 2020 Volume 20 Issue 8 President’s Corner Priority Point Extension Great news! The Dugout Club naming of the The deadline to lock in your seat selection National Championship Trophy display was priority points has been extended to August 1. approved by the UF Board of Trustees. It is Is this really Baseball? official now and we are ready to make it happen. I More 1876 want to acknowledge the Dugout Club Board for There are nine sections to the pitching rule so only their endorsement of the idea of a Legacy Gift and those unusual rules have been listed here. to Doug Brown for his willingness to support and advance the idea with UAA of a Legacy Gift from Rule IV –Pitching the Club. Our goal is to have the money, $50,000, Section 1. The pitcher position The pitcher’s raised by the beginning of the 2021 baseball position shall be within a space of ground six feet season. As of today, we are past $30,000. All sizes square, the front line of which shall be distant of contributions small and large help us get to our forty-five feet from the centre of the base, goal. By the way, if we raise a little beyond the and the centre of the square shall be equidistant $50,000, we can be assured there will be money to from the first and the third bases. Each corner of expand the display case to include the next the square shall be marked by a flat iron plate or national championship trophy—just saying! stone six inches square fixed in the ground even

with the surface.

We finished distributing the membership shirts on June 1, 2020. Are there members who still do not have their membership shirt? If so, please send me an email [email protected] with your size and your contact information.

Please take good care of yourself and others and please practice good health and safety measures. We are a long way from the end of this pandemic Section 2. Delivering the ball. The player who and we are all in this together. Go Gators. delivers the ball to the bat must do so while within the lines of the pitcher’s position. He must remain Enthusiastically submitted within them until the ball has left his hand, and Henri Logan shall not make any motion to deliver the ball to the President, Gator Dugout Club bat while any part of his person is outside the lines of the pitcher’s position. The ball must be 1 delivered to the bat with the arm swinging nearly Tide Detergent Pods perpendicular at the side of the body, and the hand What about the Tide PODs commercial where the in swinging forward must pass below the hip. dad uses the PODs on his little girls clothes because she has sensitive skin. Duh, don’t look Section 3. A foul delivery. Should the pitcher now, but she crawls through grass which can deliver the ball by an overhand throw, a “foul cause the skin to itch! ” shall be declared. Any outward swing of the arm, or any other swing save that of the perpendicular movement referred to in Section 2 of this rule, shall be considered an overhand throw.

Section 4. Foul Balk. When a “foul balk” is called, the umpire shall warn the pitcher of the penalty incurred by such unfair delivery, and should delivery be continued until three foul have Sheba Cat Food Commercial- been called in one , the umpire shall declare “Kid: Mom... Mom: Yah... Kid: I fell. Mom: the game forfeited. There are bandages in the cabinet. Kid: I’m

bleeding. Mom: Grab two.” You’ll do anything for Section 6. Good Balls. Every ball fairly delivered them (cats). Sheba...what cats want. and sent in to the bat over the home base and at the height called for by the batsman, shall be I guess cat people understand this. considered a good ball.

My, my have baseball rules changed since 1876. In the next Dugout Days Rule V, Department will be covered. Since there are 15 sections to that rule, only those which are unusual will be covered. A Mind Wanders in a Pandemic I have had a lot of time during being cooped up in Finally, I use Olay Bath Wash. The type that says the house. Besides reading some of the 2290 pages “Age Defying with vitamin E”. They lie. Does not of “Total Baseball”, I have paid attention to a lot work. I still look old. of TV commercials. A few have me scratching my 2020 Board head such as the following: President: Henrietta Logan President Elect: Gary Carter Secretary: Gordon Burleson Cinnamon Crunch Cereal Treasurer: Kat Davis Who came up the idea of cannibalistic cereal? Past President: Dorian Lucey Does it make you want to eat Cinnamon Crunch to Membership: Kurt Baumgartner Publicity: Suanne Knopf see this? Publicity: Tom Francella Social: Carol LeBlanc Social Media: Kristen Oliff Program: Brian Fox Awards: Amy Brown Newsletter: Gordon Burleson Raffle: Ann Lucey Shirts/Caps: Bob Smithers Snacks for Team: Meg Thomas Trips: Allen DeLaney UAA Liaison: Buddy Munroe

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