Fastpitch Photographer and Writer Establishes New Blog
(click photo to visit Bob Otto’s new blog)
We are pleased to share a note from our friend Bob Otto, who served as the official photographer for the ISC for a number of years, and whose work provided the inspiration for Maddy’s photos. Bob generously permitted us to display many of his photos, and post his feature stories in the early days of Fastpitchwest. For those that don’t know him, he was a longtime fastpitch pitcher in Southern California, playing in the days I competed against him, for Chuck Vranich’s Matthew Bronze team. He is also a longtime fastpitch photographer, and penned some great feature stories on the game and its players, which have appeared at Al’s Fastball, the ISC website, and here at Fastpitchwest.
Bob has a new blog up, and a link to a site displaying some photos from the 1994 ASA Major tournament held in Palm Springs. With a large library of negatives, he tells us that we can look forward to seeing more in the future. Here is his note:
My son Brian finished setting up a blog for dear old dad today, and I posted some of the photos I shot of the 1994 ASA Men’s Major National Tournament at Palm Springs. I thought maybe some of the readers would like to see the photos.
There’s teams like Decatur, All Car, The Farm, Seafirst, Hearts of Bloomington, Il., Jack & Do’s, The Long Beach Painters….
Many of the players have retired, and most were shot in B&W, so that gives it a nostalgic feel, I think.
I’ve got thousands of negatives to go through in which 90% of the photos haven’t been seen by the public. But it takes a lot of scanning, which means I will be at this for a long, long time to come. So look for more men’s fastpitch galleries (many ISC WT) in the future.
Click here to visit his blog, www.ottoinfocus.com. Then click the link there to see the 1994 ASA Major Nationals photos. You’ll find some household names there, including Peter Meredith, pitching for Larry Miller Toyota, and Chub Tangaroa, pitching for the Decatur Pride. Hard to believe it’s been 15 years since then.