Letter

Stop Courtesy Runners?

Jan. 1, 2002 – Letters from readers

It is time to eliminate the "Courtesy Runner Rule."

There may have been a need for it when senior softball first began. In the beginning, we needed every player we could find to fill a team. If you couldn't run, we would find someone to run for you.

But now the "Courtesy Runner Rule" has become an anachronism. There are hundreds of highly competitive teams.

If senior softball is a team sport, we should be competing against the entire 10 men on the field. We should not, each inning, be competing against the top one or two runners on a team.

It is time to drop the rule.

ˆ Robert Blainey

Surprise, Arizona