If It Were My Job To Give Out Karma.

I'm reposting some of my old blog material,
mostly to get it all in one place again.
This was originally posted on My Space on Apr 30, 2008.

Every once in a while someone truly gets it right. They nail what life is supposed to be about so spot on that they should be made to teach the entire world how they did it. They take a situation that the rest of us would overlook and turn it into something so spectacular that if I were the giver of Karma I would make sure that good Karma would follow them the rest of their natural lives.

I'm talking, of course, about Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace.

If you don't know who these two ladies are let me give you the Reader's Digest version of who they are and what they did. Then you can go read the whole story later if you want.

Mallory and Liz play softball for Central Washington University. During a playoff game a member of their arch rival school, Western Oregon University, hit a home run with two runners already on base. She missed first base and as she turned to go back and touch the base she blew out her knee and could not continue running the bases.

The rules state that the person who hit the home run must touch all the bases. The rules also state that that person may not be assisted by members of her own team. The only recourse according to the umpires was for her coach to replace her with a substitute runner, but that runner would be placed on the last base touched (first) and the homerun would become a single. (turns out that was not actually the rule but no one, including the umpires, knew that at the time)

While everyone was trying to figure out what to do, Mallory asked the umpire if there were any rule against members of the opposing team assisting her. When the umpire said no, Mallory and her teammate cradled the injured girl and carried her to each base, gently putting her down enough at each one so that she could touch it with her good foot. The girl, Sara Tucholsky, was awarded the home run and her team went on to win the game due in large part to that home run.



Mallory and Liz's team lost and was eliminated from the playoffs.

And as if that weren't enough, it was Sara's first and only career home run. But Mallory and Liz didn't know that at the time.

Good job ladies. You have my utmost respect and admiration forever.

The full story.