Senior women find joy on the softball field: Meet the Colorado Peaches
She swings and she’s off. At a ballpark outside Denver, nonagenarian Magdalena McCloskey sprints toward first base.
“The more I ask of my body, the more it gives,” says the slugger in an orange beanie.
“Maggie,” as she’s known on the field, is a longtime member of the Colorado Peaches. The softball club welcomes women players from their 50s through 90s, though the number that counts is the one on their back. That’s because the Peaches find joy – together as teammates – in the later innings of
