“All the years combine, they melt into a dream.”
(“Stella Blue,” Hunter/Garcia)
At a certain point, it all gets reduced to numbers recorded by statisticians.
All the league championships, the county, state and national championships are in lists, somewhere, on websites visited by those who follow senior softball.
For Danny Ayala, architect of all the winning by the Hilo Pomaikai team in the Hawaii Kupuna League — he plays on a separate national tournament team — the numbers keep building as his team moves along. But Ayala is a little like Satchel Paige, or maybe he learned something from Lot’s wife in Gomorrah.