Bibliotechs Softball

Eek! Methinks not.
I’ve seen the Bibliotechs play and. .. well. .. they could afford to hit the books a little harder. The previous review talks up the Bibliotechs’. .. oh heck, let’s just drop the pretense and call them what they are: librarians. .. prospects for the 2008 season but there is notably no follow up. In point of fact they suffered repeated, blistering defeat, most notably at the hands of the eventual league champion Straw Dogs who dominated the division.
While the indulgent (read: librarians) will continue to wallow in nostalgic dreams of analog days and leather-​bound nights, digital-​age powerhouses such as the Straw Dogs will continue to define the future of softball at MIT. It’s clearly time to relegate the entry for this musty, dusty team to the card catalog of history. They are long overdue for check out and no amount of outstanding late fees can save them from the surplus bin. I am afraid the best they can hope for is a comfortable retirement somewhere deep in the stacks right next to the team’s dog-​eared, worn copy of ‘Softball for Total Idiots.’

The Bibliotechs are one of the finest slow-​pitch softball teams ever assembled… PERIOD.
The Bibliotechs are the MIT Library Staff Association’s softball team, composed of library employees, their families, and friends. They have been playing in the MIT Community Summer Softball League for 30 years.
Bibliotechs come from all walks of life: among the members of past teams have been a film-​maker, a taxi-​driver, a Dutch volleyball champion, a Pushcart Poetry prizewinner, a former member of the seminal rock group The Velvet Underground and the legendary ‘60s Boston garage band The Lost, and a past president of the New England Herpetological Society. It’s all too true!
Bibliotechs have gone on to great success after MIT, not only as librarians and library administrators, but also in the fields of law, accountancy, veterinary medicine, teaching, and enigmatic behavior.