played for Overbook High more than 50 years ago," said Brody, who now lends his bat and glove to the men's club team of Suburban Jewish Center-B'nai Aaron in Havertown. "This is the first time I've held a bat in more than 40 years."

Moments earlier, a teammate whose jersey identified him as "Rebbitzman," thumped a line drive to left field, stretching the base hit into a double. The next time the ball left the infield, Adi Wyner - husband of Rabbi Lisa Malik - charged around third and then crossed home plate, his face noticeably flushed while he struggled to catch his breath.

"Don't put that in the paper," he said self-deprecatingly during last Sunday's game, which was organized by the 4-year-old Main Line Synagogue League. "Rabbi's husband can'trun."

After six innings, the B'nai Aaron team was down by just one run to Penn Valley's Congregation Beth Am Israel. But after the seventh - while baseball games stretch into nine innings, softball games only go seven - Beth Am Israel pulled out a 19-14 win, denying B'nai Aaron its first victory of the season, unless you count an April forfeit.

"We still have our perfect record," joked Brad Miller, Men's Club president and B'nai Aaron first baseman. "That was a fun game we had. So far, we haven't been at each other's throats when we lose. Anyone can come out and play. We have two or three people on the team who have never played before."

On the other side of South Ardmore Park, the Har Zion Temple team