Women’s Qualified Softball League

The Women’s Pro Softball League was lively from 1997-2001. Following a handful of many years of inactivity, it was revived and rebranded in 2004 as Nationwide Pro Fastpitch. The league has 6 groups: the New England Riptide, the Philadelphia Drive, USSSA Delight, Akron Racers, Chicago Bandits and the Rockford Thunder.

In the approach of rebranding and reforming in 2002, NPF teamed up with Key League Baseball as portion of their ongoing endeavours to hook up with ladies. The MLB signed on as an Formal Enhancement Companion, and with their assist NPF set on an all-star softball tour in 2003.

2004 was the initially full season for Countrywide Pro Fastpitch. The six groups performed 178 video games. The 2005 year had considerably less online games, 144, but grew to contain intercontinental groups from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, China, Russia and Australia.

As with all rising leagues, teams adjusted towns quite a few times from inception to nowadays. While the New England Riptide has not outright folded as some groups have, they did sit out the 2009 period because of to economic causes.

One particular exciting sport the NPF plays is the “Fight of the Bats.” Each Saturday evening property activity, 4 players from every single workforce stand for a distinct bat manufacturer for a home run hitting contest amongst bat businesses and gamers. The summary of the sequence normally takes position at the NPF championship weekend in Kimberly, Wisconsin.

The Women’s Professional Softball League was not the initial endeavor at a women’s league there was one other motion in the 1970s. The Intercontinental Women’s Skilled Softball Association was launched in 1976 and stayed energetic until the 80s. There was a lull in the activity right until the 1990’s when the Cowles family members launched the Women’s Pro Softball League.