Steven A. Ellis
Kennesaw, GA
At 09:51 AM 5/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>> Darn! I'm so used to catching slowpitch fish. )-:
>>
>
>Actually, fish-pitching by definition is slow pitch. You see, the fish's
>slime coat works much like the baseball pitcher's saliva in creating an
>unpredictable trajectory to the pitched fish. In addition, since the
>pitcher can't get a firm grip on the fish, it gives it a knuckleball effect.
>However, any experienced fish-pitch player knows that pitching is the easy
>part and that the fish catcher has the most difficult job. That's why
>catchers long ago declined to use the traditional catcher's mitt and began
>using a one-man seine. Of course, hitting the fish is a challenge as well.
>I would suggest that the conference be used as a training camp where
>prospective NANFA players could begin with T-fish where the fish is not
>actually pitched but instead placed upon a T and batted out into the field.
>Would someone like to investigate if the folks from Bass-O-Matic would like
>to sponsor the team?
>
>Rob Denkhaus
>Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
> "El muerto a la sepultura, el vivo a la travesura"
> "The dead to burial, the living to mischief"
>
>
>
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