Kathy Arendsen played for the Raybestos Brakettes. She was a 15 year veteran when she retired after the 92' season. She finished her career with a 334-25 record and a 0.15 ERA. She struck out 4,060 batters. She was a 13 time ASA All-American and played on 2 World Championship teams. She had 79 no-hitters, 42 perfect games and 58 1-hitters in addition to notching 265 shutouts. She is a 3-time recipient of the Broderick Award as the top collegiate player in the nation. She had an ERA of 0.00 in 1986 with a 26-0 record.
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Thanks for the history lesson. She retired about the time my daughters started playing.
It's easy to poke fun at the pitching coach but many of the hitting suggestions are just as crazy on the web. I will say though the pitcher for Missouri throws very similar to what this coach suggests 9not necessarily what the student was doing) and she is pretty solid and very fast.
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She also coached at Mississippi State before going to Oregon in 2003. She was there through the 2009 season when Mike White took over.
From OU's website:
In addition to being the youngest player (37) ever inducted into the ASA Hall of Fame, she has been voted into halls of fame at Cal State-Chico and Texas Women’s as well as the state of Michigan’s ASA Hall of Fame and the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Hall of Fame.
She was honored as one of the 50 best-ever athletes to come out of the state of Michigan by Sports Illustrated in December 1999 and was also named as the top softball player of the past 25 years by the U.S. Sports Academy. She is also a member of the Michigan Hall of Fame that also includes Barry Sanders and Joe Dumars among others.
Not too shabby of a resume' if you ask me.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the windmill pitch delivery. It's more the girl. The program my daughter played summer ball in had a former mens fastpitch pitcher who taught the girls. They were all taught the same things the same way. His program has been around since 1979. About half of them had good to great riseballs. The others struggled with it. My daughter had a great rise but a crappy drop. All through HS and college it was her K pitch until the NCAA shrunk the top of the strike zone.
Then why, if the slingshot is "superior," has it gone out of fashion? Why isn't some college pitcher using it and blowing hitters away with it?
One other thing to keep in mind when comparing the old school pitchers with the modern era is the pitching rubber was at 40 feet back then. Moving it back made a big difference in the offense in college, and it's making a big difference in the amount of offense in high school now.
One other thing to keep in mind when comparing the old school pitchers with the modern era is the pitching rubber was at 40 feet back then. Moving it back made a big difference in the offense in college, and it's making a big difference in the amount of offense in high school now.
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You're also forgetting white balls and dead bats to go along with the shorter distance.
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Good point. Not saying pitching was ever easy, but it was probably easier to dominate with so much favoring the pitchers.
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