Hall of Famer wins Specialty Golf Match

[Jim Flanagan]

Received: 5/8/06 7:11:48 PM
From:  "James Robert Williamson"
<jrwilliamson(at)foodfacility.com>

Subject:  Hall of Famer wins Specialty Golf Match


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>From jrwilliamson (at) foodfacility.com
For Immediate Posting

Did anyone else notice that the winner of the Shoot Your Age
tournament at
Arnold Palmer's Country Club this past weekend was ASA Hall of
Fame Pitcher
Leonard Luken, now of Deerfield Beach, FL.

Go to
www.shootyourage.com
for Results and Tournament Info

ASA Hall of Fame Bio (From ASA Web Site)
Year Inducted: 1993
Hometown: Covington, KY
Category: Men's Fast Pitch
Division: Men's Fast Pitch

Leo Luken was one of the mainstays of the Fort Wayne, IN Zollner
Piston
pitching staff during the 1940s and 1950s when the Pistons won
three
consecutive ASA national titles. Nicknamed the Lion-Hearted,
Luken started
his 21 year career pitching in church league competition (1936-1938)
before
helping the Nick Carr Boosters of Covington, KY win the 1939
ASA national
title with Luken compiling a 42-6 record. He joined the Pistons
in 1940 and
remained with them until the team disbanded in 1954. Luken won
12 games and
lost none in national championship play. He won three games apiece
in the
1942 and 1944 nationals. One of the wins in 1942 was a no-hitter
against the
defending national champion Bendix Brakes. In 23 innings, he
allowed four
hits, one run and fanned 33 batters. In 1945, he won four games
including
beating the Joe Louis Punchers in the final, 1-0 in Cleveland,
OH. In 1946,
he won a pair of games beating Cleveland , OH in relief of Bill
West, 2-1 in
11 innings and shutting out Longview, WA 7-0, on a two-hitter..
Over three
seasons, 1944-1945 and 1946, Luken put together a 53 game win
streak before
losing July 5, 1946 to Briggs Beautyware of Detroit, MI 2-1.
He also had a
17 game win streak from May of 1953 to September of 1954. Luken
had some
impressive seasons for the Pistons including 1942 (29-2 with
three
no-hitters and 11 shutouts; 1944 (30-2), 1945 (35-0), 1946 (31-2);
1947
(17-4), 1949 (17-1 with 151 strikeouts in 145 1/3 innings), 1950
(15-3),
1951 (6-1) and 1954 (9-1). After the team disbanded, Luken remained
with the
Zollner Corporation as production and traffic manager before
retiring in
1982. Since his retirement he also has been elected to the Indiana
(1978)
and Kentucky (1984) ASA Halls of Fame. Luken was born July 14,
1918.

Jim Williamson
Yakima, WA
<jrwilliamson(at)foodfacility.com>


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