A Very Good Letter.......& Very True

A-B-C ASA Nationals
Thursday, September 10, 2009
As usual the ASA has failed to put out an information on this years A, B & C National tournaments. As they failed to do for the ASA youth tournaments. Each had a web site that if ran correctly would given all fans information that would have been enjoyable for all. The host committees are supposed to be responsible for running their web sites. The South Bend IN Committee did a good job with their site. I had thought that Decatur IL would have done something. They had a web site that was set up to give not only scores but statistics. Could have been a great site but they failed to do anything with it. NAFA also failed miserably with their reports. Brackets are nice but fans and participants would like more. I wonder why we in the States do not get the web site thing for fastball. The folks in Canada seem to get it. Their National Tournament for Men had a good site. The Nationals for midget and junior boys had great web sites. Even the 4 league that I follow up there have great web sites and they use them although they are slower arould playoff time. They even for the most part put in box scores for each game and they play up to 100 plus league games a year.The ISC has a great coverage on Their website for both The World Tournament and the ISC II Tournament of Champions if all these folks can do it year after year why can't ASA and NAFA. Good tournaments and the players that play in them deserve much better coverage. The Host committee in Midland MI next years ISC events has already opened their web site and what I have seen so far say it will be a great one. If your team played in any of the 3 ASA events please post your results with winning and losing pitchers and maybe some high lights. I would love to get the results with Pitchers for the youth tournaments both ASA and NAFA. If you had a team in any of the youth tournaments please email me your results with pitchers. I follow and keep track of teams and winning and losing pitchers for as many events as get reported or use their web sites so far this tear I have 63 tournaments, 4 leagues and around 2000 games. A few missed some pitchers but not many.I hope ASA and NAFA get it next year and put out some information. Gary

Thanks,Gary Baughman
I.S.C. Statistician & Fan of all Fastball.