(click logo for official NAFA website) On July 22-24, 2011 16 Team (10 have confirmed already) NAFA Men’s Open World Series will be held at the four field complex near Madison, Wisconsin at the Bowling Green Sports Complex. To showcase our youth program and development of the sport we will also hold our 23-Under Elite [...]
(click logo for official NAFA website) Rockford, Illinois selected to host 2011 NAFA “Aâ€, A-Majorâ€, “AAâ€, “AA-Majorâ€, 23-Under World Series featuring new 4 Game Guarantee The beautiful 8 field Sportscore Softball Complex in Rockford, Illinois has been selected to host the 2011 NAFA World Series August 11-21, 2011. The 48 Team A-Major and 32 Team [...]
Know How to get in touch with Jerry Hoffman? Former Lancaster/Lakewood Chameleon first baseman Jerry Hoffman is among the members of the newest ISC Hall of Fame class, to be inducted at Quad cities in August, 2011. The ISC is try to get in touch with him, in preparation for that induction. If you have [...]
Cap tip, Bob Henning. Wellington side in total control CAROL COOK – The Nelson Mail Photo: HOME SAFE: Poneke Kilbirnie’s Craig Wallace scores against PCU catcher Josh Thomson by sliding under the tag and driving him off home plate. Although Parklands Christchurch United accounted for Poneke Kilbirnie 3-1 on Sunday and backed this up with [...]
Our friend Ken Vierling was inducted into the Minnesota Hall of Fame over the weekend. Congrats, Ken!
THE tournament schedule for 2011 is growing by the day. Find it here, at Al’s Fastball Among the recent additions: Best of the West, June 4-5, 2010 Erie, PA, July 30-31, 2011. And, of course, the first “big one” on everyone’s list for the new year, the AAU International Tournament, at ESPN’s Wide World of [...]
From our friend Martin Jorge: Argentina Men’s National Team Staff confirmed today that school will be touring in New Zealand and Australia between 24 November and 12 December in what will be the first international competition will face the national team since he is commanded by Eduardo Sabaté. Selection will be leaving from Buenos Aires [...]
Update: See bottom of this post. As many of our regular readers know, Fastpitchwest.com followed in the footsteps of Al’s Fastball, but also some older printed publications, like Ray Anderson’s Fastpitch Bulletin, and Bob Tomlinson’s Fastpitch Chronicle. (mentioned here, written when I started the site twelve years ago, back in 1998) Though the Fastpitch Bulletin [...]
From the ISC NEW ISC II Player Rep- Press Release I would like to welcome Eric Fogel, from Hummelstown, Pa, as the new ISC II Player Rep. Eric is an active player/pitcher/coach with Pennsylvania Power, who are coming off an impressive sixth place finish at the 2010 ISC World Tournament where they were also awarded [...]
Yesterday, we posted an announcement on the Argentina Jr. Boy’s team. Today, we are pleased to share a nicely produced video from the folks in Parana, Argentina, hosts for the 2012 ISF Jr. World Championships. Parana was described to me by my friend Martin Jorge: Parana is a nice city to go, it’s on the [...]