Archive for 2014
When all that Matters is Fastpitch Softball
It’s so very easy for many of us to take for granted this game that we love. For parents, players, coaches and fans of fastpitch softball – it seems as if our lives are taken over by the sport. In today’s ultra competitive world of youth sports, so many kids lock and load on one…
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Quitting the Softball Team!
So you want to quit your team? Things just aren’t working out like you had hoped they would. Maybe you were made to think one thing, and another ‘thing’ happened. Maybe the coach turned out to be a real turd, or some of the parents are mean and cold-hearted, or there was too much drama,…
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Softball & God
A few Sundays back, we posted a fan question on the our Facebook page about a family new to travel softball, struggling with the concept of playing on Sundays. Many fans weighed in with ideas and thoughts and different ways for this family (and many others) to incorporate their worship onto the field. Some tournament…
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My Daughter is a Pitcher
My daughter is a pitcher, and I couldn’t be more proud of her! I have watched the hours and hours that she has put in outside of practice. Out in the yard, hacking it out with a pitching rubber while her dad sat on a bucket. At lessons, being tweaked and challenged, and learning…
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Let IT Happen – Girls Softball
We are always on the lookout for new inspiration. As a thinker and writer – any trip to the ball field is filled with plenty of stimulation, some good some bad. So its not surprise that today’s post is courtesy of three simple words said by a proud softball mama while her daughter was at…
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The Beauty of One Bad Inning
Lets just face it. We all have sat on the sidelines and watched a team we love, one our daughter plays on -fall miserably apart. Here you are at a tournament eating nachos, and happily amused with game day activities, hoping earnestly to watch a stellar game, only to end up feeling like you have stepped onto…
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Softball Parents & Anger
Spend enough Saturdays at the ballpark, and you are sure to experience the raw gamut of emotions that come from watching your children play ball. Between the parents on the sidelines, the coaches, the officials, the girls in the dugouts, spectators and moms chasing their sticky toddlers around, the ball-field offers a full-sized smorgasbord of human…
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Why Fix What’s NOT Broken?
For many people across the country, school ball is in full swing. The vast majority of high schools and middle schools with softball teams play ‘school ball’ during the spring. And now the SIFG ‘Ask the Coach” and Facebook questions tend to be from parents concerned about everything from the school ball coaches to whether…
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Perks to Being a Pick Up Player
Each year, as softball seasons winds down and back up again, girls and parents are scrambling and hunting for the perfect team to call their own, or settling back into comfortable routines with the team they have been playing on for years now. As your daughter gets older, one thing that you may want to…
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How’s Your Softball Team KARMA?
In the softball world, a lot of bad things happen to good folks. From where we sit, we often hear from the parents who have been mistreated, or who feel their daughter has been treated unfairly. Of course, we also realize that many of us feel like we were done wrong for one reason or another…
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The Heart and Soul of Fastpitch Softball
If you are a fan of our facebook page, it is obvious that fastpitch softball reaches a ton of girls from all over the country, who play at all levels of the game. On any given Saturday, a fan of ours is playing anything from a 7 game guarantee select ball tournament 2 states away…
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9 Tips for Choosing a Great Softball Private Instructor
Guest post by Ken Krause, Life in the Fastpitch Lane So, you’ve decided your softball player could use a little extra help to reach her goals, and have decided to bring her to a private instructor. That’s the good news. Now comes the hard part – choosing the right one. You’re about to make a…
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Softball Fundraising – Part II
Last week, we started Money Mondays – in the hopes of sharing fundraising ideas with other softball families. No doubt, softball is an expensive sport and with so many of us searching for sponsorships and scrambling to raise money (and with BASEBALL to compete with) – girls softball teams often get left with the bread…
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One GREAT SOFTBALL Idea! SCORE-STIX
Traveling around to softball tournaments, you learn the ropes pretty quickly. By your second tournament you realize that packing extra toilet paper is a GREAT idea, that having a shade tent makes passing the hours at the field during the summer heat more enjoyable, and that a rolling wagon is well worth the $65. Still,…
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Fundraising for Softball – Part 1
It’s that time again. The onset of a new season is upon us. This means two things. Teams and parents are looking for money to support their daughters passion AND parents are frantically clinging to their pocketbooks. Softball is an expensive sport, there is no doubt. With so many softball fundraising options, it can be…
