“The good thing about baseball is that you can play at your age.”
Does it mean that if you get caught up in common sense, you lose the enjoyment of life? Three women in their 50s belong to the women’s baseball team “Futures Ladies” in Shizuoka City. If you are a junior high school student or older, you can join the team regardless of age or experience. A 51-year-old woman who joined the team last year despite having no experience in baseball emphasizes that “baseball has different ways of enjoying baseball.”
I doubt my ears when I know my age after seeing the movement of defense and batter. What’s more, his surprise grows when he hears that he has no experience in baseball. Setsuko Oishi, now 51, is a founding member of “Future’s Ladies,” which was launched in April last year. She belonged to the softball club in junior high school, but she had little to do with sports after high school. She was the first to play baseball at the age of fifty.
“At first, I was reluctant to participate in the practice, and I felt afraid. However, when I actually tried it, I realized that I could do it even if I wasn’t good at it. The good thing about baseball is that I can play at an age. I think”
Mr. Oishi’s family had a husband who had experience playing baseball, the eldest daughter playing softball, and the eldest son playing baseball. Mr. Oishi learned the joy of her competition through the support of her children. And when her eldest son finished high school baseball and the founding of “Future’s Ladies” coincided with her, she decided to “actually play baseball.”
