A Salute To Softball

A Salute to Softball"the arc of the ball ... the ping of the bat"Slow-pitch softball, god bless it, has always been a sport of high numbers. Your average office stiff with a solid swing and a sure eye can bat .500, and the guy whose wife nags him to lose his gut can regularly use that heft to lose the ball in deepest center field.Fast-pitch, the sport of strong-arm pitchers and frustrated batsmen, was the dominant form of the game 30 years ago; today, 90 percent of softball players pre...