Sports

The Senior Texas Softball League is preparing for the 2021 season and is looking for men and women ages 55 and older to add to its 10 teams. Each league will have a 17-game schedule including playoffs.

The origin of baseball in the Valley points to Brownsville, specifically to when the first baseball club was formed in 1868.

By the time you read this column Wednesday morning, providing you read it, the Houston Astros will either be headed into Game 7 of the World Series (Wednesday night), or they will have fallen prey to the Atlanta Braves, Ted Turner’s old team. I can still remember when he owned the team and was married to Jane Fonda, and the two of them could be seen sitting together in the seats, watching the games.