A great bit of writing from Bill Hillhouse in his blog over at his House of Pitching web site.
Men’s fastball has been dropped as a sport from the Pan-American games coming up in Brazil in 2007. And Hillhouse has a pointed question for the ASA (and the ISF) : “Why the silence?”
Men’s softball was eliminated from the 2007 Pan Am games and the ASA/ISF have remained silent. Not only are they silent.. they won’t even report this! It’s not on either website. No press releases have been issued. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Zippo. Men’s softball isn’t even worth the time to type up a press release.
And our beloved ASA treats men’s fastpitch like that dirty old uncle that the family doesn’t like to talk about. It’s sooooo bad now that when I do clinics from time to time, people don’t even realize that men play fastpitch softball
Click here to read the whole commentary on the ASA standing by and doing nothing while yet another bit of the men’s game at the international level is stripped away.
Editor’s note: We have added Bill’s blog to our “Links” over there on the right hand margin, for the convenience of our readers. Bill has agreed to serve as the moderator for the ISC section of our Fastpitchwest Forum for 2006. We are looking forward to hearing more from one of the great voices for our game.