LUDLOW, Mass.—​" A nice cold glass of beer!" said Western Mass Relics pitcher Ralph Becker.

“No spinach?” Western Mass Relics catcher Don Riddle said.

 “No spinach!” Becker said.

That’s Ralph Becker and Don Riddle, or as the Western Mass Relics nonprofit senior softball league know them as the 90-year-old battery.

The duo has been playing pitch and catch for the league in Ludlow since it was established in 1994.

For Becker, baseball goes back as far as his childhood days playing for the Massachusetts Tri-County baseball league and said being 92-years-old will not stop him now.

“It’s enjoyable with the guys competing. Regardless,” Becker said. “Age doesn’t mean anything anyways. It’s just a number.”

Riddle said he didn’t even touch a softball until he joined the Relics softball league in the mid-90s.

However, his friendship with Becker goes all the way back to high school when they both attended Springfield Tech.

Reunited now as the Fun Fun Fun teams battery, it’s a relationship that has only grown with time.

“With Ralph it’s wonderful,” Riddle said. “We’ve known him forever. He lives on one road on one side of Wilbraham mountain. I live on the road on the other side of Wilbraham mountain. A walk through the woods. We’re about a quarter mile away.”

The Western Mass relics host two senior league divisions, with one being for ages 50 and older while the other is for ages 65 and older.

The pair playing competitive ball isn’t exactly common, but Riddle said there’s a simple answer for what it takes to play at his age.

“I have a theory, and the theory is you get up every morning and you do exactly what you did the day before,” Riddle said. “You never say, ‘Nah, I can’t do that.’ You never say, ‘Nah, I’m tired.’ You never say any of that.”

“A lot of the old friends, you know we’re competing which is good,” Becker said. “We’re attached in that respect and it’s enjoyable. We still got a little competition left in us.”