Latest video from Team 1st Hitting (two of the best, Jeff Ellsworth and Steve Mullaley): "Improve Hand Eye Coordination and Swing "Speed. See more videos at their Facebook page. Including this video, "How to Get More Hits". … [Read more...]
OLYMPICS/ IOC paves way for return of softball, baseball in 2020 Tokyo Games
From THE ASAHI SHIMBUN MONACO--Men’s baseball and women’s softball, two sports that Japan excels in, are expected to return as official events for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics following revised rules on hosting the Games. The International Olympic Committee at a Dec. 8 extraordinary general meeting here voted on 40 proposed revisions for organizing the Olympics and came … [Read more...]
From CBS Sports: It’s Vin Scully’s 87th birthday; let’s listen to him call Hank Aaron’s no. 715
In a word he has used over the years to convey great achievement, "remarkable". Courtesy of CBS, let's listen to him call Hank Aaron's no. 715" listen to his call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. From CBS, echoing the advice of my Ballpark Radio broadcast colleague, Lance Winn, "...let it [the broadcast] breathe" Scully's often talked about the importance of letting … [Read more...]
1994 ISC World Tournament Media Guide
Editor's note: I was moving some boxes over the weekend and found some with fastpitch memorabilia, including this 1994 ISC World Tournament Championship Guide from 20 years ago. The champions the prior year in 1993? Toronto Gators, with pitcher Darren Zack and catcher Bruce Casselman featured on the cover of the guide. Darren was the Most Valuable Pitcher that year, while … [Read more...]
Joe Drach, Pennsylvania legend
From Citizens Voice It is rare to find one person to whom a sweeping societal change can be attributed. Business, health, education, the law, sports … all of these fields change over time. Many people contribute to the transitions and often the change is incremental. Joe Drach gets credit, or blame if one is so inclined, for the shift of men’s softball in Northeastern … [Read more...]
Kitchener’s “Angels in the Outfield” Adds Honoree Donald “Pete” McIlwraith
With the recent passing (June 11, 2014) of Donald “Pete” McIlwraith, a tireless softball volunteer in Kitchener Ontario, a 9th honoree is being added to the “Angels in the Outfield” initiative. The “Angels in the Outfield” project is creating and will place a memorial tribute stone recognizing the Kitchener community’s valued volunteers who have helped to develop, … [Read more...]
A Gibraltar in cleats
The 75th Anniversary of Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech. Well done, MLB. Well done. Click here to watch or view below. Lou Gehrig's Farewell Address "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received … [Read more...]