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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes: Spring 2008
2 revel in baseball team’s league championship
Two La Follette School alumni are looking forward to summer and the chance to defend their baseball team’s season title in the Men’s Senior Baseball League of Southern Wisconsin, which is for players 28 and older.
For most of their baseball season, Lamont Smith reports he wanted to strangle Mike Heifetz because he was inconsolable when Heifetz struck out or made an error at shortstop. The two La Follette alumni played baseball together in a Madison-area men’s league.
Left fielder and May 2007 grad Lamont Smith was one of the Bulldogs’ younger members. Shortstop Mike Heifetz is vice president of governmental affairs for Dean Health System and SSM Health Care of Wisconsin. He graduated from La Follette in 1991 — when Smith was in sixth grade. “I didn’t realize how much of the generation gap we were covering last summer,” Smith says.
“What he really means is, ‘I knew the old guy had a LaFollette brain, but didn’t know he could still play ball,’” Heifetz counters, adding that Smith was “an awesome addition to the team.”
With a record of 10 wins and four losses, the Bulldogs won the season against league rivals the Raptors, winners of the 2006 league title.
In the matchup against the Raptors, Heifetz was part of a key double play during the seventh inning. Then, in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, the Raptors had runners on first and second, with the game-tying run on second. The Raptors’ cleanup hitter lined a base hit to Smith in left field. He threw out the lead runner at home to end the game.
The Bulldogs won with a final score of 5-4.
“We had a great time,” Smith says, “and our being on the same team was a pretty funny chance meeting of two alumni.”
“We are lobbying to change the team name to the Fighting Bobs,” Heifetz adds, “but the other guys aren’t going for it.”