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[1] [2] The American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) was the first such league, launching in an era of experimentation in professional sports leagues. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The APSPL was formed in 1977 by former World Football League executive Bill Byrne , who would go on to found the Women's Professional Basketball League . [ 5 ]
The target normally used in slow pitch softball. In some forms of slow pitch, the pitched ball must hit the black mat behind home plate to count as a strike. In most versions of slow pitch (including 16-inch) the pitch is lobbed so that the ball rises above the batter's head and lands on a small rectangular area on the ground behind the plate ...
The Cleveland Jaybirds (1977–78), later named the Cleveland Stepien's Competitors (1979–80) and finally the Cleveland Competitors (1982), were a professional softball team that played in three professional softball leagues between 1978 and 1982 at two different locations in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
Over that last weekend of August 1968, the first USSSA world softball tournament was played in West Allis, Wisconsin. Over the past 40 years USSSA has grown from a couple of thousand slow-pitch softball players to over 3.5 million participants playing 13 primary sports. In fact, USSSA sanctions teams and individuals in 38 sports.
[6] [7] The American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) was the first such league, launching in an era of experimentation in professional sports leagues. [8] The APSPL was formed in 1977 by former World Football League executive, and Columbus resident, Bill Byrne , who would go on to form the Women's Professional Basketball League .
Fort Wayne would put forward one of the worst records in the 6-year run of professional softball, finishing the 1979 season with a 8-56 (.172) record, 32.5 games behind the Milwaukee Schlitz. Milwaukee would take the APSPL title in 1979 over the Kentucky Bourbons , with Schlitz player Rick Weiterman winning both the series and league MVP awards.
After the last AIAW competition, collegiate national championships in slow-pitch softball were conducted in 1983 and 1984 by the Amateur Softball Association. [14] [15] The University of South Florida won both. It appears that most of the college women's slow-pitch teams at that time were from Florida and North Carolina.
The USA Softball adult program began in 1934. With over 170,000 teams, 2.5 million players, and 500,000 coaches involved on an annual basis, the adult program is the largest USA Softball program. USA Softball provides programs of competition for adults including fast pitch, slow pitch and modified pitch for men and women.