Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Sun Life Magazine, an Independent Newsmedia publication.
Everything seemed to line up perfectly. There would be Major League Baseball-level talent not only in Arizona in a pre-Diamondbacks world, but in a team the Valley could call its own at the corner of 111th and Grand avenues in Sun City.
In 1990 the Senior Professional Baseball Association — for players 35 years old and up — already had one year under its startup belt after making its all-Florida debut, and the fledgling outfit was expanding west to other warm-weather markets with a team in San Bernardino, Calif., and a team in Sun City.
