The Glory Days

On Monday June 1, 2015, Carroll County's Senior Softball founder was recognized, honored, roasted and toasted with the retirement of his uniform number #1 at Maggie's Restaurant during the annual teams' dinner.

Original team members (L to R), Chip Baginski, Carl Reed, Harry Griffith and wife Janet, and
Henry Litchfuss.

The occasion called for a toast and ROAST so Tinker was chosen to emcee the event.

Photo: (L-R, Chip, Carl, Harry, Henry, Greg, Mel and Hank)

During the celebration, Harry's wife, Janet, was called upon to dress Harry with the ceremonial "Harry #1 uniform shirt" crafted by Evers and presented with the www.carrollcountyseniorsoftball.blogsite.com memorabilia booklet by Chance,  our now antediluvian teammate.

The entire contents of Tinker's speech was acknowledged by Harry to be true!

The Reader's Digest condensed version goes as such:

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen and Neal. Allow me to introduce myself as REDACTED...
....during one of my carpool rides with Harry during a conversation over recent political events
Harry asked me if I would like to live to be as old as he, to which I answered, "sure".  Harry then
said "let me give you some advice and stop watching Fox News and switch to Looney Tunes!".
..............................................................................................................................................
..............once lost and then found, the Lois Lerner emails have revealed REDACTED...........
....REDACTED.......REDACTED.  The now surrendered private server emails of former
Secretary of State H REDACTED REDACTED has exposed the following: REDACTED.......
 So now I'll ask Janet to strip Harry of his uniform shirt so that all in attendance will have the
opportunity to sign the jersey after dinner.  ("Harry, I see the amorous glint in your eyes, but it can wait until you and Janet get home, or as you told me while embracing your wife upon your
arrival, get a room!").

Now let's eat!

The full text can be found by visiting Harry and asking to view his commemorative booklet or
at The Library of Congress under HGxx.bs.2015T.