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A FREE Public Service for Softball is For Girls Fans – The Blue Chew®

Its January. Which means we are getting closer and closer to the start of (eeeekkkk) softball season! Who else cannot wait? The smell of grass, and dirt, and sweaty girls, and the concession stand hamburgers. The clinking of the bats, the giggles and laughter and cheering and applause…. Shall we go on????? It’s right around…

One Important Trait of SUCCESSFUL SOFTBALL PITCHERS

Pitching. Pitchers. Softball Pitchers. What we have found is that pitchers are a tenacious bunch of girls. They tend to be the perfectionists, the “OCD kids”, the able to withstand great pressure but also put THEMSELVES under great pressure kiddos. Above so many things, we have found that there is one common thread of successful softball…

5 Ways to Ensure Your Youth Athlete is Miserable and Fails

Youth athletics. Sigh. What a mess it has become. Dead are the days of recreation athletics and low pressure games where parents are just happy to see their kids outside, playing a game with their friends. Now youth athletes are under soooo much pressure. It’s become a job. And unfortunately, parents who claim to not…

Fan Question Friday – ‘Softball is For Girls’ Answers

SHIRT SALE GOING ON NOW! Many Designs JUST $16! On any given day, SIFG receives an overwhelming amount of emails with fan questions, fan-shares and other awesome things related to softball! We love them – so keep them coming. We typically post them to the group and let the…

Your Life on Softball!

What are YOUR weekends made of? Pop Up Tents, and Dollars spent. Alarm CLOCKS and stinky SOCKS! Cracking bats and friendly chats. Flip flop Tans, and excited fans. Cheering crowds and watching clouds. Fold up chairs and moments shared. Long nights, hot days! Portable heaters and RAIN delays! Cooler FOOD and fingers crossed. Losses and…

Six Simple WORDS Your Softball Player NEEDS to Hear

What SIX SIMPLE WORDS DOES YOUR LITTLE DIAMOND DIVA REALLY NEED TO HEAR? On the SIFG Facebook page, we are inundated with questions and rants from parents and even from players, about the problem with parents on the field. Let’s be honest! None of us are ALWAYS flawless spectators. We all, as adults get emotional,…

6 Things to Remember this Saturday | Softball is For Girls

It’s Friday night. If you are playing this weekend, that means you have checked the weather a zillion times, have ran to the store, loading up on waters and snacks for the day, checked the weather again, made sure the uniform was somewhere you could find it in the wee hours of dawn when its…

Should Pitchers Throw Batting Practice?

This is one of the most common fan questions we get in regard to pitching. It comes in several forms. The first being, “Our pitchers dont throw batting practice during team practice. Shouldn’t our team learn to hit off live pitching?” The second being, my daughter throws multiple times per week, and then at practice…

Why I Wish She Wore a Facemask – A fanshare

My name is Zoe, and I am 16 year old fastpitch player. I am a power hitter. I normally hit in the 3-5 spot, because my coaches pretty much trust me to hit the ball HARD, and move runners around. When I am not hitting, I play catcher and as you may know, I wear…

Handcuffed | Fastpitch Softball

There’s an interesting thing going on in girls fast-pitch today, that seems to be a double edged sword for coaches, parents and players alike. Even so, if you sit back with an open mind and truly look at the dynamic within a team – you will see that there is a lot of handcuffing going…

The Last Game

Help us Paint the Field PINK this OCTOBER with OUR BREAST CANCER Awareness Shirts. Available with or WITHOUT Numbers It’s chilly as I take my seat on the clinky metal bleachers, far enough away from home plate but close enough to get a perfect view of the pitcher’s mound, to watch my daughters game. It…

Playing Fastpitch with Fear

If you have played fast-pitch long enough(or have a daughter that does) you should realize that softball is largely a game of failures. While the ULTIMATE goal, may be perfection – a game with absolutely no errors, where no batter strikes out or gets thrown out, where pitchers don’t walk a single batter, or ever…

Love to Watch YOU Play!

It’s March. It’s Spring. This. Is. Such. A. Beautiful. Thing. And that means that college softball has started, school-ball in many parts of the country has commenced and Rec and travel teams are either preparing to….or already taking the field. You can almost smell new uniforms void of season old eye-black, and knee holes at the…

The Top 6 Stability Exercises for Overhead Athletes

Big Thank YOU to Dr. Eric Dixon, for this weeks health and wellness fastpitch article! The Top 6 Stability Exercises for Overhead Athletes By Dr. Eric Dixon, DC, MS, NSCA-CPT www.sportchiroplus.com In the game of softball, it’s becoming more and more trendy to try to gain strength and power at a young age. The parents…

Under the Weather Tent – Fad or FAB? |product reviews

We don’t do very many product reviews around here. But the other day, perusing internet, we came across the Under the Weather personal pop-up tent, marketed for soccer parents. And the picture of the mom on the sidelines huddled in her personal individual, roofed and walled tiny hut while the other parents got rained on…