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What has been your greatest memory so far

Discussion in 'Softball Forum' started by Braves, Oct 26, 2007.

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  1. Oct 26, 2007 at 3:33 PM #1
    Braves

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    involving softball? A game? an event? a circumstance?

    I'd just like to hear your stories that standout in your mind.
     
  2. Oct 26, 2007 at 5:24 PM #2
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    a lot of positives since and many perhaps more significant from a dispassionate third party perspective but the one that stands out for me personally was where my daughter pitched a shutout to win the county rec championship when she was 11. The rec center team had always been a doormat and laughing stock in county ball and in 2 summer and one fall season we only lost one game. It was at that moment that I knew she "belonged".
     
  3. Oct 26, 2007 at 6:12 PM #3
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    Wow, greatest memory....

    Well, I guess it would be, the day my DD met her 1st pitching coach!
    She was there doing drills and such with him and he took her over to a tarp/fence and told her to do her windmill motion, but don't pitch the ball, keep a hold of the ball! So he and her Dad were talking and he was standing kinda in front of her and she does the windmill and out comes the ball hits the pitching coach, he immediately drops face down to the ground, looks up, blood gushing from his brow, laughing and seeing stars, says "I'll go get some frozen peas to put on this, you keep going! The DD is at this point screaming "I never want to pitch again" the pitching coach comes out with his frozen peas and says "Oh yes, you most certainly should be a pitcher, anyone who can hit someone that hard with a ball, at 11 yrs old, should most certainly be a pitcher! Now let's get back to the lesson! So after he talked with her a lot and calmed her back down, she went back to the lesson and has been a pitcher, ever since! She is now a freshman in college, as a pitcher! It is all due to her almost killing her very 1st pitching coach! LOL He stilll shows people his "Lacy" scar, (his name for it), LOL We still get a big laugh out of this story everytime we think about it! His name is Dave Perkins, the best Pitching Coach, ever! My DD gives him all the credit for her pitching, because he kept coaching her to pitch, even after she wounded him the 1st time they met! LOL
     
  4. Oct 26, 2007 at 6:18 PM #4
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    Nothing to do with softball...SORRY! But, our travel basketball team won the State Championship this past summer and we also finished #1 in the post season national polls! That's my number one memory!
     
  5. Oct 26, 2007 at 7:52 PM #5
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    on of the fondest memories I have involved the Carolina Starz (Big Ben McKinney) and our Carolina Fear 14u playing in the Super NIT some years back. We had played the Starz several times this year already and were evenly matched. We lost to them, fought our way back thru the losers bracket and had to beat them twice for the championship. We dominated them in the first game, but Ben just sat back and smiled....he knew we had spent our pitching in that game and he was right, we had nothing left for the second and deciding game. The girls on both teams played their hearts out for that championship, but the Starz came out on top. The great memories I have came not only during that game, but after with their parents and ours sharing compliments, hugs and handshakes for every player on both teams. My kids, who are 20+ now, still talk about all the girls on the starz and how much fun that year was.
     
  6. Oct 26, 2007 at 10:00 PM #6
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    What a great story. Thanks for sharing
     
  7. Oct 26, 2007 at 10:02 PM #7
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    That's the one that I wanted to hear. Thanks
     
  8. Oct 26, 2007 at 10:05 PM #8
    Braves

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    Listen, it could be the day she signed her NLI

    It could be the 1st day she "went off" to college to play softball

    It could be the 1st time she tried on her ball glove....on the wrong hand

    It could be for "the player" your 1st HR or your 1st win as a pitcher

    Whatever it is, what do you remember most?
     
  9. Oct 26, 2007 at 11:25 PM #9
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    I have coach rec league teams for many years, T-ball, Baseball, Softball, and Football. For me the greatest moment is when any kid I coached many years ago comes up to me with a smile on their face in a grocery store, or any public place and says hey coach.
     
  10. Oct 26, 2007 at 11:42 PM #10
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    Most Memorable

    It was several years when we got a call from a production company wanting to do a feature on our 10u and 18u Carolina Comets. I thought it was a joke at first. They asked if we had a place where we practiced. We told them where our practice field was and what day we practiced. They showed up with a director, cameras a producer, and shot some footage. Lots of take1, take2 and trying different angles ect. After the base footage the interviews came next. Several of the girls were selected for interviews. After the interviews they follow us in tournaments to get more footage. They ended up shooting the last footage at Cherry Park in Rock Hill. I asked them how they heard about us. I was told they chose us to do the feature because they liked our web page. Not bragging, but I designed and built the web page in its entirety. The Discovery Jones organization is the ones that were in charge of the feature and it was shown on the INSP television network that had 53 million viewers around the world at that time. All of the coaches and myself were sent video copies of the show before it aired. I was amazed at all that went into doing that video. We had to sign papers saying it was ok to show the video and use our names on the network. Outside of a couple of come from behind ball games, that was one of my most memorable moments.

     
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