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CITY HALL STARS, KIDS AND KUBS CLASH, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13, 12 NOON

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St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman’s City Hall Stars resume their rivalry with the Kids and Kubs on Saturday, February 13, 2021. The 50th annual Mayor’s game is set for North Shore Park 901 North Shore Blvd, St Petersburg, at noon.

At 9:30 AM, a preliminary contest brings the TASCO TEENS to North Shore Park for their annual meeting with the Kids and Kubs. In 2020 the Teen Club brought a team loaded with power hitters, strong throwing arms, and speed on the basepaths to defeat the squad fielded by the Kids and Kubs.

Mayor Rick Kriseman’s City Hall Stars and their Three-Quarter Century Softball Club rivals (aka) Kids and Kubs have played tug-of-war with the Mayor’s Trophy awarded annually to the annual contest winner. The Mayor’s City Hall Stars claimed a 23-14 win in 2020, regaining the coveted cup.

Played since 1971, the game has always been competitive. The event brings together city employees against an organization that has gained national renown for the city for the past ninety-one (91) years. The Kids and Kubs are the oldest, continuous senior softball organization in the U.S., going back to its founding in 1930.

The Kids and Kubs led the City Hall Stars 13-5 last year after inning six of a scheduled seven-inning game. Victory for the home team seemed just three outs from reality.

City Hall Stars had other thoughts in mind as they plated eight runs to tie the contest at 13-13. Still holding the “hammer” with last time at bat, the Kids and Kubs appeared in control. Scoring a single run would win the game and give the home team another dramatic victory like 2019’s 14-13 bases-loaded walk-off home run win.
However, not this time, the visitors from the Mayor’s office scored eight runs to tie the game. A one-two-three-out defensive stand by the City Hall Stars in the bottom of the 7th put the game into extra innings.
Well-placed Hall Star hits in the top of the extra inning, including Keith Glasgow’s three-run home run over the centerfield fence, 250ft away, put the lid on a ten-run inning fueled by the precision placement of singles and doubles that found the Kids and Kubs unable to corral. The home team’s defensive unit could only watch as the City Hall Stars rained hits to all fields with uncanny “hit ’em where they ain’t” accuracy.
Down 23-13 in the last half of the eighth inning, the home team managed to score just one run, clearly less than the number needed to keep the visitors from taking the traveling trophy back to Mayor Rick Kriseman’s

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