Ageless wonder...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=A ... &type=lgns

Goes to show you what dedication and hard work can achieve. I know baseball is not basketball, but still, thsi is a great feat.

Yeah , Julio France the Dominican King!!!!!!! Some say he is actuall older then what he says since immigrants usually lower there age down by a few years

He's been playing since 1982, if I'm not mistaken...

I'm not a baseball fan, but that is quite a feat.

It's relatively usual for baseball players to play into their early 40s, especially position players. And since the incorporation of the DH rule in the AL, that is even more the case.

But in the late 40s... I can only think of one other recent example,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickey_Henderson


but he was not so good in his later years as Franco is still.