YAKIMA, Wash. — Longtime softball player and supporter Jim Williamson will be inducted into the Amateur Softball Association Region 15 (Pacific Northwest) Hall of Fame tonight in Vancouver, Wash. Williamson will be inducted as a manager/sponsor. His JRW and Associates men’s fastpitch teams have two second-place finishes, two thirds and a fifth place in national … [Read more...]
NYY Curtis Granderson in “Softball Mad New Zealand”
Editor's note: Loved the comments about standing in against a New Zealand fastball pitcher, and "Softball Mad New Zealand". (There's another big league.) The Grandstand: Teaching baseball in softball-mad New Zealand By Curtis Granderson New York Yankees outfielder and BLS blogger Curtis Granderson(notes) is currently on a goodwill trip to New Zealand and will be … [Read more...]
ASA Honors for Prescott Arizona
Softball group honors Prescott for national tournaments By Ken Hedler The Daily Courier PRESCOTT - Softball has been good to Prescott, to paraphrase the late Whitey Herzog, a professional baseball player and manager. Prescott joins Kingman, Tucson and Yuma as the top venues in Arizona for hosting softball tournaments, said Don Fishel, tournament supervisor and state … [Read more...]
1/1/2011
Happy New Year -- and 2011 season to you all ! … [Read more...]
Link to Dave Blackburn Updates
. We continue to receive emails from people asking about Dave Blackburn, and asking for his address for Christmas cards and such. Dave Blackburn is at the Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles, and can see visitors, and receive mail. You can send your letters or cards to: Kaiser Permanent Los Angeles Medical Center 4867 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles,CA 90027 (323) 783-4011 At … [Read more...]
Ronnie Rupp on the mend
In our story about the "Breeder/Rupp" Tournament held in Long Beach last weekend, to honor Dave Blackburn ("Breeder") and Ronnie Rupp, who suffered serious injuries in an auto accident in August, we noted that Ronnie Rupp was headed back to the hospital for surgery on cancerous kidney cells. To say that Ronnie has had a rough go of things in 2010 is a bit of an understatement, … [Read more...]
Escondido approves MiLB Ballpark
Editor's note: This one doesn't quite qualify as fastpitch news, but we thought we'd share it nonetheless. San Diego, California seems to be in the spotlight this week. Just yesterday, we posted the story of the ASA's announcement moving the Girls 18U Gold National Championship to Sportsplex, at Santee, California, just up the road from San Diego. Today, another San Diego … [Read more...]