The National League Finals just came off in Boston. I helped originate the idea a few years ago and was glad to see it finally come to fruition. Not enough teams this inaugural year, but it will come. I was disappointed that none of the teams from my old squash league in Washington made it—for years I was a part of a spirited scene down there that was very competitive on-court and social off.<\/p>\n League now for me is squash doubles. My doubles team at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia managed to win the Philadelphia SRA’s Super B league this past winter. Even though no one has adequately explained why there are B and a Super B leagues (I am guessing that it has do with bruised egos of former A players), the league was great fun. Doubles is inherently more social that singles, and a bunch of RCOP guys drove all the way down from Philly to Wilmington to watch our side take on Vicmead in the finals.<\/span><\/p>\n Now if only there were more districts than Philly and New York that had doubles leagues, we could start a National League Final doubles tournament. Maybe we should try that out anyway, with Toronto and Vancouver? Not sure there are any other cities that have bonafide leagues (Greenwich\/Rye?) but four is enough to start. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National League Finals just came off in Boston. I helped originate the idea a few years ago and was glad to see it finally come to fruition. Not enough teams this inaugural year, but it will come. I was disappointed that none of the teams from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54450417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54450417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54450417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54450417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54450417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}