I defy you to find a story with guys displaying this level of sportsmanship:

This is what sport is all about! (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=hays_graham&id=3372631&lpos=spotli ght&lid=tab4pos1)

That is maybe the greatest sports story I've ever seen!

Thanks for sharing Vegan!

That is a really great story! It should be called sportswomenship.

Selfless action by the Holtman girl and the shortstop? How is it selfless to uphold your own beliefs in what you think is right and acting on that belief? I believe that's selfishness.

If the opposing team had allowed the hurt girl to be replaced by a pinch runner and been recorded as a two-run hit, everyone knows that's locically incorrect. The girl hit a homer and touching all the bases is a technicality, the celebretory aftermath of an accomplishment. She hit a homer, period. It sounds to me like the rules are flawed if they demand obedience to denying her that homerun due to an injury in the celebration.

So basically what these girls did was overturn a rule they knew to be morally corrupt and assert their own sense of justice to a sport that they respect and love, and literally carried out the action that allows the sport to remain untainted in their minds.

Anything less would be looting from the homerun girl and the sport and would have led to a smarmy feeling of victory had the Central Washington team won - because they all would have known the win came from a ruling that was against their beliefs.

And the writer calls this selfless and an act "that celebrated the collective human spirit far more than individual athletic achievement."????

I could not disagree more. It was ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL girl who asserted her belief against the umpires, the rule book, the stands, the other team, her own team, everyone in order to preserve her love for the game and not permit a technicality to let her team steal a run from an injured girl.

If there were more people in this world like Mallory Holtman, people like Sara Tucholsky wouldn't have to worry that she will always be at the mercy of laws which do not match her moral creed. That there are individuals out there who will stand up and fight for what is justice, no matter how many people tell her, "You still hit a homer, honey, even if they didn't count it. Softball is all about having fun and having the right attitude anyway, right?"

Have you spent any time working at the Twentieth Century Motor Company??

Succubuzzz redefining the article through Randian lenses?

I almost cried when I read the story. It's reads like the last twenty minutes from the feel-good movie of the year.

Wow, you have issues.