Boomers: The last generation of family men?

This fall, when our senior softball season ended, a league-wide email went out, announcing the beginning of winter bowling league.

It seems the softball guys like to have these extracurricular activities available year-round.

Last summer, on my softball team, I heard a guy tell the coach he would miss the next week’s game because ‘I gotta drive my missus to her cancer treatments.’

The reason seems to be: They have families. And they’re committed to their families. They are good family men.

Which means they also get bored with their families. They get tired of their wives, and their kids, and their relatives. They can’t putter around in their tool sheds forever; they need to spend some time with their boys.

So they form sports leagues: softball, bowling, whatever. Or