AYF Softball 2016: A Saturday Tradition

When I was a member of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF), Saturdays were dedicated to Track and Field preliminaries.  During my era as an AYFer, participation must have diminished, because by the time I was aging out, preliminaries were no longer held and Saturdays became a free day.   To fill the gap, there were a few experiments such as soccer—which never really took hold—and tug of war—which lasted for several years.  At some point, the AYF adopted softball and this team sport became quite popular.  In the early years, they played regulation slow pitch with the regulation softball.  In recent years, the AYF made the game co-ed.