These senior hockey players found a frozen fountain of youth

Marsh Webster was the first to arrive. He entered the locker room at the Skaneateles, New York, YMCA at 8:15 a.m., carrying his hockey equipment in an Army duffel bag, his Warrior stick laced through the straps, his skates dangling from the end of the stick.

“At my age, I need a little extra time to get ready,” the center said, smiling.

In three days, Marsh would turn 95.

Seventy-six years after he saw St. Louis beat the Athletics in Cooperstown, Cardinals fan John Anagnost returned to Doubleday Field to play alongside Hall of Famers. “He reminded us why we love this game,” Tim McCarver says.

It’s the rest of us who need to catch our breath. When Marsh was born on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1923, in nearby Syracuse, the National Hockey League was only 5 years old and totally Canadian. When he first skated on the ice near his house, a hockey stick cost $1.50 and the Zamboni was 60 years away from reality.

As he slipped on a “CHIEFS” jersey that looked just like the one Paul Newman wore in “Slap Shot,” memory served up the date of that cult classic: 1977, 41 years ago. Yet the jersey looked as good on Marsh as it did on Newman, who was a mere 52 at the time of release.
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