![[ Photo of Sixto Lezcano and three SLUBA
Bosses in 1993 ]](sixto.gif)
![[ Photo of the SLUBA Bosses at the
1993 Awards Ceremony ]](bosses1.gif)
The Sixties Lezcano Ultimate Baseball Association (SLUBA) is
a fantasy baseball league in Seattle, Washington. SLUBA was
founded in 1984 by J Michael Kenyon (First SLUBA Commissioner for
Life), a sports talkshow host at that time on KVI-AM in Seattle.
Owners have included a member of the Seattle Mariner front
office, a major players agent, a member of the Seattle Mariner
broadcast team, W.P. Kinsella who wrote the great baseball book
"Shoeless Joe" and a bunch of regular guys who usually won
because they knew more about baseball than these "experts"...
The SLUBA Rules require all of the players in the league to be major leaguers under the age of 25. When the league was formed in 1984, most of the eligible players were born in the 1960s - thus the name.
SLUBA is named after legendary outfielder Sixto Lezcano who played mostly for Milwaukee. In 1993 Sixto was a hitting coach with the Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League. Second League Commissioner for Life, Jack Fleming, sent letters to the Eugene team, to the Everett team, and to Sixto notifying them that the SLUBA Bosses would be in the stands (general admission) when Eugene first visited Everett (near Seattle). The SLUBA bosses made a pilgrimage to Everett and Sixto graciously allowed us to have a group photo taken and he autographed a baseball that is now the SLUBA Champion Traveling Trophy.