Cop baseball

The cops used to play the fire department every year a game of basketball and a game of softball. They charged admission and the money went to buy sports equipment for the school.

The whole crowd would always cheer for the firemen but the police wives are a rowdy group and I swear we made just as much noise as they did. It was always a fun night and we always had a big crowd.

The police stood a chance in softball and actually won sometimes but we were always the loser in basketball. I swear the cops spent more time on the floor then upright. We kept yelling at them it was not a fight, you can’t tackle the guys. You would have had to see it to understand.

Then the cops that coached women’s soft ball had an end of the season game where the men had to stop at each base and take a swallow of beer.  They soon were not running enough that we could win.  The officers that did not drink had to drink Pepsi at each base.

Fun times with great people. In Alaska softball and baseball are still very popular and they have like 13 women’s teams alone.  They don’t do much playing between cities even with the high school as all out of town games you have to fly to and it is to expensive so everyone gets involved and you play each other.

It was a fun time in the summer in Alaska and many happy memories.  Cops are just regular people who have a job that is like living in front of a camera and people just looking for something to pin on you if you say or do the wrong thing.  They are just family people that want to help people