FAN BENEFITS

Spring fast approaching
Local softball games
offer many fan benefits

This spring and summer, take me out to the LOCAL fastpitch (or slow pitch) softball game, whether it’s Little League, club ball, company leagues or college. It’s just down the road!

Wesley Wolverine sophomore #23 MI Brooke Retkowski (Baltimore, MD).

Here are a few benefits of catching a local softball game with an emphasis on college fastpitch.


1. SMALLER FIELD than baseball with fans much closer to the action and players. Every seat is a good seat.

2. RELAXED SOCIAL SETTING where most fans know or are related to players, are enthusiastically cheering and eager to talk to one another.

3. ENTERTAINMENT that allows fans to simply follow just the balls, strikes and hits – or guessing moves and strategies, becoming seriously involved with the intricacies of the game.

Wesley Wolverine sophomore #2 3B/SS Karina Cardona (Cooper City, FL).

4. COSTS. Local softball games are usually free or very moderately priced with ease of parking – and a short drive home!

5. WATCH IN COMFORT. Most local venues allow fans to bring folding stadium chairs and/or to pack food from snacks to a picnic for the whole family.

6. TIME. A full game is 7 innings or about two hours. Often a second game is played or several games on a complex of fields. Stay all day, a few hours or only a few innings. Very easily come and go as you please.

Wesley Wolverine freshman #1 MI Bianca Newsom (Edison, NJ).

7. ADMIRE THE PLAYERS. Fastpitch is for everyone: tall, thin, short, strapping, fast, strong, slap hitters, singles hitters, power hitters – all kinds, types, shapes, while everyone on the field has one or more of an amazing amount of individual skill sets, which she has spent hours and weeks training for this game, this moment in the game.

8. IT’S NOT THE PROS. You are watching young women playing hard and determined to win, but when the dust settles, these are kids just like everyone else with higher, more important educational and societal goals in mind.