Remembering the glory days of Philippine softball

She was not supposed to start that day. Purita Jacinto, the Philippine women sotfball team’s top pitcher should have.

But in a sudden change of heart, team manager Santos Ret (in the sports of softball and baseball, the team manager calls the shots, a job reserved to the head coach in other sports) picked Julita Tayo, Ms. Jacinto’s backup hurler, to man the mound against Australia in the battle for third place in the Second Women’s Softball world Championship.