Baseball is usually thought of as a younger person's game. But for many, the love of the sport never goes away – no matter how old you are.
Players as old as 63, 68 and even their 70s gather at the the backyard facility.
It’s a baseball training facility built with the goal of bringing baseball back to those who thought they had aged out of the sport.Kelly McGiffin is pictured inside the batting cage at the Cubs Training Center in Port Alberni, B.C. "So we had to come up with a set of rules that was going to be comfortable for everybody," said McGiffin."It’s the greatest game on earth," said 63-year-old Brent Tall."If you would have asked me when I was a kid if I would be playing at my age, I wouldn’t have believed you."Last summer, the Cubs formed a 57+ team and travelled to Halifax, N.S., for the Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball Federation Championships.
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