BJ newsroom
retiree Tom Moore is in Florida for his 10th year of helping former
BJ sports editor Tom Giffen on the 25th anniversary of the Roy Hobbs
World Series for older baseball players.
The games are
played in Fort Myers, Florida. Tom provides interviews and game information in
a daily newspaper for players from about 200 teams around the world.
The series is divided into age
divisions---youngest group is 28-plus and oldest is 70-plus. The teams play on
the fields the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins use for spring training.
Giffen in 1990 formed a
four-team league of adult men playing out of Akron. The next year the league
grew to 11 teams and joined Roy Hobbs Baseball, which was owned by Ron Monks of
California. In 1992 Monks sold Roy Hobbs Baseball to Giffen and his wife,
Ellen.
For several years, Giffen ran Roy Hobbs Baseball out of his basement and continued to work at the Beacon Journal. In the mid-1990s, as the organization brought in more and more teams, Giffen resigned from the BJ to work full time at his Roy Hobbs enterprise.
Roy Hobbs is the fictional hero of Bernard Malamud's novel, “The Natural,” and the movie with Robert Redford as Hobbs.
For several years, Giffen ran Roy Hobbs Baseball out of his basement and continued to work at the Beacon Journal. In the mid-1990s, as the organization brought in more and more teams, Giffen resigned from the BJ to work full time at his Roy Hobbs enterprise.
Roy Hobbs is the fictional hero of Bernard Malamud's novel, “The Natural,” and the movie with Robert Redford as Hobbs.
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