05-28-2010, 08:56 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Sportsmanship is alive and well...Rick Reilly pens a beauty.
GREAT story.
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This was the first softball game in Marshall history. A middle school trying to move up to include grades 6 through 12, Marshall showed up to the game with five balls, two bats, no helmets, no sliding pads, no cleats, 16 players who'd never played before, and a coach who'd never even seen a game.
One Marshall player asked, "Which one is first base?" Another: "How do I hold this bat?" They didn't know where to stand in the batter's box. Their coaches had to be shown where the first- and third-base coaching boxes were.
That's when Roncalli did something crazy. It offered to forfeit.
Yes, a team that hadn't lost a game in 2½ years, a team that was going to win in a landslide purposely offered to declare defeat. Why? Because Roncalli wanted to spend the two hours teaching the Marshall girls how to get better, not how to get humiliated.
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Unreal.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5218228
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05-28-2010, 12:03 PM
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RANDOM USER TITLE CHANGE
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: South Calgary
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Sports Illustrated took a dive in quality article content when Rick left......thanks, good read.
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05-28-2010, 12:21 PM
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Franchise Player
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Another Rick Reilly fan here -- neat story.
However, I have to ask... why would you even field a team with "16 players who'd never played before, and a coach who'd never even seen a game"  It's situations like this where the score ends up 142-0 and nobody ends up a winner. Good to hear this one had a happy ending
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05-30-2010, 05:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Great read!
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05-30-2010, 05:17 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: On my metal monster.
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Good story. If only instances like this happened more often than not.
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05-31-2010, 11:42 AM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by tvp2003
Another Rick Reilly fan here -- neat story.
However, I have to ask... why would you even field a team with "16 players who'd never played before, and a coach who'd never even seen a game"  It's situations like this where the score ends up 142-0 and nobody ends up a winner. Good to hear this one had a happy ending 
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I don't know, maybe someone in TO or Edmonton can answer that.
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