If Ty Cobb played for the Lake baseball team, he would feel right at home.
The Detroit Tiger and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame inductee played over 100 years ago, but his forte was hitting and stealing bases during a dead ball era when those two attributes were important to winning.
Those attributes are still important, even though the ball may be a little livelier and metal bats have replaced wood bats at the amateur level.
In 60 base stealing attempts, Lake base runners have been caught only four times. It is one element that has propelled the Flyers into first place in the Northern Buckeye Conference at 12-5 overall and 5-1 in the league after a 5-0 shutout win over Elmwood Wednesday. They are trying to “defend” their 2019 title, when they finished 27-1 overall and a perfect 14-0 in the NBC, and they are doing it with a handful of seniors and 10 juniors.