Editor’s Note
This week’s Throwback Thursday features snippets of the July 1997 edition of Bob Tomlinson’s Fastpitch Chronicle, “the” men’s fastpitch newspaper of record before the internet. Still working on a way to scan the newspaper-sized pages, but for this post, we’ve photographed a few articles from that issue.
The familiar Page One Banner of everyone’s favorite, “The Fastpitch Chronicle”
The front page blared a story about a “Shocker in Seattle”, an article about a “thrown together” team upsetting Larry Miller Toyota. Click here to view larger image (easier to read)
The Masthead of the Fastpitch Chronicle, published by Bob Tomlinson and his staff, from Poynette Wisconsin. included Publishers Bob and Karol Tomlinson, Assistant Editor Mary Larsen, Circulation Assistants Bob and Ruth Thompson and Assistants Kari and Eric Tomlinson. Subscriptions in 1979 were $29 for 12 issues, slightly higher to countries outside the USA.
Also appearing in that July 1979 issue of the Fastpitch Chronicle was the (1997) “ISC World Tournament Preview”, the month before the 1979 ISC World Tournament held in Victoria British Columbia Canada, not far from the site of the upcoming 2024 ISC World Tournament (#ISCWT2024).
Wondering who won the 1997 ISC World Tournament? Spoiler alert. Recap here.
Also appearing in the issue were the Fastpitch Chronicle Men’s Rankings. Compare to the final results a month later by click the “Recap here” link above.
