Porirua teenager Te Wera Bishop is set to sign a deal to join baseball giants the Boston Red Sox. Bishop, 17, who made his international debut for the New Zealand men's softball team against Australia, will ink a contract in Auckland in Thursday and join up with Red Sox for spring training on March 1. The catcher is taking a step in the unknown, but is excited by the … [Read more...]
Comments Welcome
As you may have noticed, one of the new features of the recently re-designed FastpitchWest website is the "Comments" section at the bottom of each and every blog post. (Scroll down on any page to "Speak Your Mind"). Your comments are welcome and invited. (Longtime readers will recall that the old Morning Brief blog had a comments section but that it as turned off due … [Read more...]
Ken Vierling Update
Surgery on Friday. Ken's note on Facebook: I am going to be a fighter and my intention is to not let this get me down. I may be off the Internet for a while during this time but I will know more once I get to the hospital. After the surgery on Friday I will be at Fairview Southdale from 7 to 10 days. My hope is to keep everyone informed of my status. Thank you all for … [Read more...]
Area softball fixture heads to Hall of Fame
YAKIMA, Wash. — Longtime softball player and supporter Jim Williamson will be inducted into the Amateur Softball Association Region 15 (Pacific Northwest) Hall of Fame tonight in Vancouver, Wash. Williamson will be inducted as a manager/sponsor. His JRW and Associates men’s fastpitch teams have two second-place finishes, two thirds and a fifth place in national … [Read more...]
NYY Curtis Granderson in “Softball Mad New Zealand”
Editor's note: Loved the comments about standing in against a New Zealand fastball pitcher, and "Softball Mad New Zealand". (There's another big league.) The Grandstand: Teaching baseball in softball-mad New Zealand By Curtis Granderson New York Yankees outfielder and BLS blogger Curtis Granderson(notes) is currently on a goodwill trip to New Zealand and will be … [Read more...]
ASA Honors for Prescott Arizona
Softball group honors Prescott for national tournaments By Ken Hedler The Daily Courier PRESCOTT - Softball has been good to Prescott, to paraphrase the late Whitey Herzog, a professional baseball player and manager. Prescott joins Kingman, Tucson and Yuma as the top venues in Arizona for hosting softball tournaments, said Don Fishel, tournament supervisor and state … [Read more...]
1/1/2011
Happy New Year -- and 2011 season to you all ! … [Read more...]