Throughout summer 2022, four divisions of the Bux-Mont Senior Men’s Baseball League suited up, trotted to their positions, and battled it out. The season has ended, but many of these senior players (45+ years old), plan to be back next year. Paul Kurtz, KYW Newsradio, covered this story of baseball devotees in a league of their own.

Each year from April to Aug., the teams suit up, and Montco fans gather to watch the competitions between rivals match-ups like the Lansdale Cannoneers v. the Harleysville Angels and the Montco Phillies v. the Sanatoga Athletics.

Player Mike Waltrich, 54, described his challenges as catcher, saying: “[I’m] a little slower, can’t throw as hard, can’t run as fast,” he admitted. “But baseball is baseball. Most of these guys aged up with me.”

Tony D’Angelis, 67, has been playing since the league’s 1987 inception.

“I saw an ad in Sports Illustrated about a men’s baseball league,” he recounted. “I called the number. They said they were having a league in Plymouth Meeting, Miles Park. And that was the first year.”

Some teammates are devoted enough to the sport to play in travel leagues when the weather in Montgomery County turns too cold for play.

Others ride it out locally, waiting for spring and another opening day.

More on Bux-Mont Senior Men’s Baseball is at KYW Newsradio.