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Rest in peace, Peter Looney.
Softball will go on, but it will never be the same | SouthCoastToday.com
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Looney, who started coaching freshman football and varsity track at Apponequet in 1967, died Friday after a four-month battle against brain cancer.
"Peter was a great man. He's the one who brought softball to the SouthCoast," said New Bedford coach Harry Lowe, who coached softball for 13 seasons at Apponequet before leaving to take over the Whalers. "He knew how important pitching was to the game and he developed some of the best pitchers in the state."
Looney's love affair with pitching began when he started watching film of pro softball legend Joan Joyce, who had a fastball that was clocked at 118 miles per hour.
Joyce lived in Connecticut and Looney went there to seek out her coach, John Stratton. The two became fast friends and they ended up co-writing a book about pitching in the 1980s.
The things that Looney saw in the way Joyce pitched changed softball in this area forever. When Looney first starte coaching softball, it was a slow-pitch game. That all changed though, when Holly Booth, a 6-foot-1 freshman showed up at one of Looney's softball practices.
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Softball will go on, but it will never be the same | SouthCoastToday.com
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Looney, who started coaching freshman football and varsity track at Apponequet in 1967, died Friday after a four-month battle against brain cancer.
"Peter was a great man. He's the one who brought softball to the SouthCoast," said New Bedford coach Harry Lowe, who coached softball for 13 seasons at Apponequet before leaving to take over the Whalers. "He knew how important pitching was to the game and he developed some of the best pitchers in the state."
Looney's love affair with pitching began when he started watching film of pro softball legend Joan Joyce, who had a fastball that was clocked at 118 miles per hour.
Joyce lived in Connecticut and Looney went there to seek out her coach, John Stratton. The two became fast friends and they ended up co-writing a book about pitching in the 1980s.
The things that Looney saw in the way Joyce pitched changed softball in this area forever. When Looney first starte coaching softball, it was a slow-pitch game. That all changed though, when Holly Booth, a 6-foot-1 freshman showed up at one of Looney's softball practices.
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