What a great video with many of the best at their prime... wish there was some footage of the generation of pitchers just prior to this world class group!
When I was young all the men played fast pitch, only the older washed up players played slow pitch. But nowadays the young men, for all their talk, are a bunch of marshmallows who are afraid to look bad. Hitting is definitely hard against a good pitcher but in my generation that was a challenge. The modern youth don’t want to be challenged they just want to look good. I might add that my best friend was the younger brother of Kenny Rogers, the country singer. Kenny & his brother Randy both were pitchers who played fast pitch. Kenny struck me out a lot of times.
In the early 70's, men's fastpitch was dominate with very little slow pitch played. It is amusing to me to hear the ladies say how weird it is to see men playing fastpitch. Unfortunately there is little men's fastpitch being played in our area (Northern Indiana) today but I am proud that the girls have continued one of the best games every played, FASTPITCH!!
I knew a player in the early 70s who was one of the few players to beat the kind and his court. His name was Newman Ayers he was in the Air Force and this man could pitch past second base even further if he wanted to. The ball was coming at you at about 90 miles per hour. I was a dam good player and only got one hit off of him. If anybody knows this man or where he is could you leave a comment, or if you knew him let me know how he is doing. He was in Munich Germany during the 1972 Olympic Games.
Umm actually softball is much more challenging than baseball because first of all do you know how much harder it is to throw under hand than it is over hand and a 65 mile an hour pitch in softball is equivalent to a 90 mile an hour pitch in baseball and it officially titled the fastest game in the world sooo take that baseball oh and plus a softball is not soft
