Wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas ! May it bring good things to all… (My nephew Ryan enjoying the new fallen snow)

(click logo to visit Ballparkradio.com website) Just in time for Christmas, the archived broadcast of the 2008 ISF Jr. World Championship game has been posted online for listening and download. You may listen to it directly, or save to your computer and play back on any computer. The broadcast is made available free of charge. [...]

(Click logo for official SCIFL website) From Robert Hernandez of the SCIFL (So Cal Independent Fastpitch League) LAS VEGAS ROAD TRIP II With most of the Country freezing and snow falling in places it doesn’t normally, NAFA and SCIFL are announcing the second edition of the “Las Vegas Road Trip” Men’s fast pitch tournament. The [...]

2009 ISC Qualifiers December 21, 2008 Canada East Region – Blair Setford, Vice President – blairjs@rogers.com 905-826-2697 World Tournament – 3 + 2 berths awarded from ‘08 ISC II ToC – 7 + 4 berths awarded from ‘08 World Tournament Qualifiers

We were sorry to learn of the passing of longtime fastpitch player and fan, William Hefflemire. William followed the AAU International tournament, among others, in recent years, dropping us an occasional email to catch up on scores and send along a good word. He kept his passion for the game throughout his life. His son, [...]

Midland Daily News December 9th, 2008 By Dan Chalk (reprinted with permission) [Midland, MI] – With all of its fastpitch softball history, one fastpitch event that Midland has never hosted is the International Softball Congress World Tournament. But now, the Midland Explorers Booster Club hopes to bring the ISC Tournament to Currie Stadium in the [...]

NAB to honor Vin Scully From Variety: Dodgers broadcaster joined team in 1950 By ANDREW STEWART The National Assn. of Broadcasters will induct Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully into the org’s Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Scully, who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers’ broadcast team in 1950, followed the team to L.A. before the start of the 1958 [...]

The Google boys have come up with some new tech that makes reading PDF files quicker and easier, in Gmail, right inside your browser, without “opening” the file. Great for opening that tournament notice, or bracket sheet, on the fly: From www.lifehacker.com: Gmail Makes Viewing PDF Files In-Browser Easier Next time you receive a PDF [...]

Fastpitch Bulletins to be archived online at Fastpitchwest.com 1984. No, not George Orwell’s 1984. Fastpitch, circa 1984. None of Clyde Bennett’s Young Buck 23-and-under-players had even been born. But fastpitch was going full throttle, and being covered in the “Fastpitch Bulletin” by the late Ray Anderson and his ace reporter, the late Betty Stout (wife [...]

Regular readers of this column are no doubt familiar with “Maddy’s Photos”, www.maddysphotos.com, the website where you will find more fastpitch photos than any site known to man (or woman, as the case may be). But if you have not visited since the end of the 2008 season, you may have missed the complete remodel [...]