Paige Halstead Throwing Mechanics [Softball Catching Mechanics] 

Until the late 70's/early 80's mens fastpitch softball was a huge sport. We, meaning those of us men who played fastpitch softball, considered slow pitch softball players as playing girls softball. Today though, I apologize as vociferously as possible to all the girls and women who play fastpitch softball for comparing them to men slowpitch players, the women fastpitch players are so much better than mens slowpitch players it would be inconveviable to rank the slowpitch men higher than female fastpitch players. Look up guys like Ty Stofflet and Kevin Herlihy and their 56 inning world fastpitch softball championship game. I played both baseball, from little league till I stopped playing adult baseball at 44 while I was living in San Diego and played fastpitch softball from the age of 14 when I started my first game at 2nd base in Sandusky Michigan for Teetz Electric in 1976 and continued playing fastpitch on the Indian Reservations where fastpitch softball is a huge sport, while I lived in San Diego, and there are many world class pitchers and players living on the Reservations. I'll tell anyone who has the money and wants to recruit players and go try to win a World Fastpitch Championship, the Indian Reservations around San Diego in particular, and Southern Cal in general would be a great place to start recruiting.

Yes, her and Lauren Sweet had some of the softest glove hands of any catcher all time and both of them had the same kind of howitzer of an arm, to the extent that most teams would not even bother attempting to steal on them by the time they were seniors. Halstead and Sweet are probably the two greatest defensive catchers of all time; I know there are a few others one could make the case for as Defensive GOAT, but when thinking about defensive catchers Halstead and Sweet are always the first two names that come to mind.

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