Games

July, 1987

Every Saturday morning, a number of reputedly sane men congregate on a baseball field in West Los Angeles for the weekly softball grudge match between the Nighthawks and the Sea Gulls, the sole members of the Claw League--so christened to commemorate a couple of birds whose feathers were mortally ruffled in the bigs not long ago; namely, a nighthawk hung out to dry on a frozen rope off Rickey Henderson's bat and a sea gull intercepted by a Dave Winfield outfield toss. What makes these contests d...