About HARD Senior Softball Baseball
GORDON SMITH HAS ADDED AN UPDATE TO HIS BIO AT THE END OF THE BIO BELOW
50+ RESCHEDULE GAMES FOR SEPTEMBER 8 LOOK AT STANDINGS SO YOU CAN SEE WHO YOU PLAYNDING
70+ RESCHEDULE GAMES FOR SEPTEMBER 9 LOOK AT STANDINGS SOYOU CAN SEE WHO YOU PLAYING
THANK YOU DOUG JOHNSON FOR BEING THE 1ST FOR SAME DAY STATS FOR 50+ LEAGUE MUDCATS 8-25-26 ALSO SAME THANKS FOR WOLFPACK FOR BEING 2ND. STILL WAITING FOR 50+ LEAGUE STATS AND STANDINGS FOR CARDINALS AND WARRIORS
DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS PERSON IS AT AGE 29? CHECK BELOW
MEET gORDON SMITH
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT GORDON SMITH
GORDON SMITH
I HAVE BEEN IN THE EAST BAY ALL MY LIFE. I WAS BORN IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA BUT RAISED IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA AND CURRENTLY LIVING IN HAYWARD. BEING POOR AND GROWING UP IN OAKLAND WAS NOT EASY ESPECIALLY IN THE 1950’S 1960’S AND 1970’S. WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID, WE LIVED NEXT TO A LIQUOR STORE AND OUTSIDE THE STORE WAS A GUMMY MACHINE AND I WOULD DAILY OPEN UP THE DOOR TO THE GUMMY MACHINE TO SEE IF THERE WAS A GUMMYS OR PEANUTS BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE THE PENNY TO BUY.
I ALWAYS WAS INTO SPORTS AT A YOUNG AGE. I WOULD PLAY BASEBALL WITH MY FRIEND IN OUR BACK YARD. WHEN I ATTEND WESTLAKE JR. HIGH, I PLAYED SOFTBALL AND WAS TIED WITH ANOTHER PLAYER HITTING THE MOST HOME RUNS. I RAN TRACK IN 9THGRADE AND WAS 1ST IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN THE 600 YARD DASH. THERE IS A REASON WHY MY NICKNAME IS “FLASH”. IF YOU THOUGHT I WAS FAST, MY 1 YEAR OLDER BROTHER WAS FASTER. MY YOUNGER SISTER BY 1 YEAR ALSO WON MANY RACES AND PLAYED ADULT SOFTBALL UNTIL SHE GOT HURT. SHE HAS COME TO SOME OF MY GAMES AND MAYBE SOME OF YOU HAVE MET HER.
GROWING UP IN THE 1960’S IN OAKLAND, YOU LEARNED HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF, THIS IS DURING THE TIME OF THE BLACK PANTHERS AND ALL THE POLICE BRUTILLY GOING ON. YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE IT UNLESS YOU WERE THERE.
AFTER GRADUATING FROM OAKLAND TECHICAL HIGH, I JOIN THE AIR FORCE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. IT WAS A GREAT EXPIERENCE AND I LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE. THEN I STARTED A FAMILY AND HAVE 5 KIDS.
AFTER MY TERM WAS OVER IN THE AIR FORCE, I DECIDED TO GO TO COLLEGE. I ATTEND ALAMEDA AND LANEY COLLEGE AND TOOK BUSINESS CLASSES. ONE MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN THE EARLY 1980’S, WITH ONLY MONEY I RECEIVED FROM MY INCOME TAX MONEY MAKING MINIMUM WAGES AT $2.75, I STARTED A VIDEO RENTAL COMPANY CALLED S&S VIDEO. I ONLY COULD AFFORD TO START OFF WITH 5 MOVIE RENTALS AND A VCR BUT WATCHING MOVIES AT HOME WAS NEW TO JUST ABOUT EVERYONE. THE PROFIT FOR THOSE 5 MOVIES BECAME NOW 10 MOVIES, THEN 50 MOVIES UNTIL MY INVENTORY WENT TO HUNDREDS OF MOVIES, THEN TO THOUSANDS OF MOVIES. MY BUSINESS GREW SO FAST I HAD TO MOVE TO A BIGGER LOCATION AND TO 4 LOCATIONS. MY STORES WERE LOCATED IN OAKLAND: FOOTHILL SQUARE, EASTMONT MALL, ROCKRIDGE SHOPPING MALL, AND MACARTHUR BROADWAY (MB) MALL. BEFORE I KNEW IT THE STORES WERE MAKING ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS IN SALES IN THE 1980’S. I HAD A PAYROLL OF 25 EMPLOYES. I ENDED UP CLOSING THE STORES BECAUSE OF THE ABILITY OF DOWNLOADING DIGITAL MOVIES, REMEMBER NAPSTER, YOU COULD DOWNLOAD MOVIES AND SONGS. WHILE I WAS OPEN IN OAKLAND, THERE WAS NO BLOCKBUSTERS IN OAKLAND UNTIL I CLOSED MY STORES.
I DID MANAGED A SOFTBALL TEAM IN THE LATE 1990’S TO EARLY 2000’S IN OAKLAND FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. WE DID FINALLY PLACE 1ST IN THE “D” LEAGUE.
IN THE 1990S I WAS MANAGER OF A RECORD STORE CALLED RHAPSODY RECORDS AND TAPES. THAT IS WHERE I MET ARTIST LIKE SNOOP DOG AND OTHERS. IN THE EARLY 2000’S, I WORKED FOR THE CITY OF OAKLAND AS AN INSTRUCTOR, WHERE I TRAINED EMPLOYEES TO DO MINOR REPAIRS ON HOMES. LATER IN THE 2000’S, I WAS AN INSPECTOR FOR DIRECTV TO MAKE SURE THE TECHNICIANS WERE INSTALLING THE SYSTEM CORRECTLY.
I AM STILL EMPLOYED PART-TIME WHERE I DELIVER SECURE DOCUMENTS IN THE MORNING, THAT IS WHY I AM LATE FOR GAMES.
HEALTH, WE ALL HAVE ISSUES, MINE I WILL BE BRIEF, I HAVE FROM PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS BARBAE, WHICH CAN BE PAINFUL, THAT IS WHY I TRY NOT TO SHAVE TO DOCTORS TELLING ME I HAVE A SEVERE CASE OF C.O.P.D (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, I NEED NEW LUNGS.
LASTLY, YOU MAY SEE ME LIPPING WALKING, THIS IS BECAUSE MY SWOLLING KNEE. SOMETIMES, I AM ABLE TO TAKE THE PAIN AND RUN HARD, THIS IS VERY HARD TO DO ESPECIALLY WITH C.O.P.D. I REALLY LIKE THE GAME AND THE EXERCISE, THAT IS WHY I WANT TO PLAY ALWAYS.
NOW YOU KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT GORDON SMITH!
UPDATE
I forgot to mention a few things. Back in the days, when I did not have a car, I tried riding my Bicycle, like David Gerd does to the Softball games. That became difficult for me. This was before they had Electric Bikes. Then I decided to catch the bus to the games. I had to take 2 buses. When I was waiting for the Bus on Hesperian blvd at Tennyson road near McDonalds, sometime I would see some of the players driving by (no names) the only person who stop was Scott Shimada, now he is Manager of the Warriors. I would see him at the games when he first started like he would see me at the games. Did not know his name and he did not know my name but he was so nice to stop and take me to the games. He would stop at McDonalds before he saw me and he would check to see weeks after to see if I was at the Bus stop. I never took the Bus back home because Ray Watkins and Brian Briegleb would give me a ride home. Back then I was playing 3 league games 50, 60, and 70
Thanks for reading my Bio
REMEMBER THE YELLOW PAGES IN THE PHONE BOOK
1ST YEAR IN AIR FORCE 1972
WAITING FOR 50+ LEAGUE STATS AND STANDINGS FOR AUGUST 25, 2026 FOR CARDINALS AND WARRIORS
70+ LEAGUE STATS AND STANDINGS UP TO DATE FOR AUGUST 26, 2026
50+ AND 70+ TEAM BATTING AVERAGE AS OF AUGUST 26, 2026
DIAMONDS .632 WARRIORS .???
ROWDYS .604 WOLFPACK .627
OLDEN BEARS ,595 MUDCATS .617
BRONCOS .547 OUTLAWS .633
PRIME TIME .510 ROVERS .602
CARDINALS .???
50+ LEAGUE WAITING FOR STATS
TOP BATTING AVERAGE FOR 50+ WITH AT LEAST 78 AT BATS AND 70+ WITH AT LEAST 60 AT BATS AS OF 8-26-26
70+ BATTING AVERAGE WITH AT LEAST 60 AT BATS
DIAMONDS .887 DAVID BALFOUR
BRONCOS .846 DOUG JOHNSON
ROWDYS .844 BARRY WALTERS
OLDEN BEARS .721 TIM LARSON
PRIME TIME .700 TONY TREBOAL
50+ BATTING AVERAGE WITH AT LEAST 78 AT BATS
WOLFPACK ,744 MIKE SOUZA
ROVERS .798 STEPHFAWN THOMPSON
MUDCATS .782 MARK JOHNSON
WARRIORS .???
OUTLAWS .786 JOHN McCOWN
CARDINALS .???
50+ LEAGUE WAITING FOR STATS
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Players who have been around the longest IN THE LEAGUE
Joe Farias 1990
Bev Van Gundy 1993
John Ironside 1994
Don Keller 2003
Gordon Smith 2003
Carla Francis 2004
Lanny Witt 2005
2006
- Rich Jovel
- Walt McQlueston
- Gill Jess
- Joe Serochi
- Dave Harding
- 2007
- Roger Gonzalez
- Tom Wagenseller
- Chip McCarter
- Barry Walter
- IF I MISS YOU LET ME KNOW
STARTING NEXT WEEK JULY 22, 2026
EACH WEEK I WILL START WITH THE PLAYER WHO HAS STARTED FIRST PLAYING WITH HARD SOFTBALL WITH A BIO AND PICTURE OF PLAYER IF THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE. NEXT WILL BE JOE FARIAS THEN Bev Van Gundy THEN JOHN IRONSIDE THEN DON KELLER THEN GORDON SMITH THEN KEEP GOING DOWN THE LINE NEXT IS CARLA FRANCIS THEN LANNY WITT
OLDEST PLAYERS FROM LAST SEASON, CHECK OUT THEIR AGES
AGES AS OF BEGINING OF 2026
1. Ruben Fielder AGE 91 50+WARRIORS
2. Don Keller AGE 90 BRONCOS
3. Walt McQueston AGE 90 ROWDYS
4. Ray Johnson 86 OLDEN BEARS
5. Joe Farias 86 OLDEN BEARS
6. Ed Johnson AGE 86 DIAMONDS
7. Gilbert Jess AGE 84 BRONCOS
8. Jim Dietrich AGE 83 MUDCAT
9. Bev Van Gundy AGE 83 DIAMONDS
10. Al Antonini AGE 82 OLDEN BEARS
11. Rich Jovel AGE 82 ROWDYS
12. Bo Johansen AGE 82 DIAMONDS
12. Gary Lee AGE 81 OLDEN BEARS
13. John Ironside AGE 81 BRONCOS 50+CARDINALS
2026 LEAGUE
BRONCOS 4 PLAYERS ON LIST
OLDEN BEARS 4 PLAYERS ON LIST
ROWDYS 2 PLAYERS ON LIST
DIAMONDS 3 PLAYERS ON LIST
PRIME TIME 0 PLAYERS ON LIST
2025 LEAGUE
OLDEN BEARS 6 PLAYERS ON LIST
BRONCOS 3 PLAYERS ON LIST
ROWDYS 2 PLAYERS ON LIST
PRIME TIME/TWINS 0 PLAYERS ON LIST