Isn't that fish market that is known for throwing fish around up your way?
Maybe you could stop in and get some pointers for us!
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"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay DeLong
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Another NANFA?
>
>
> The area around home plate would be a mess after while! If
> you wanted to
> slide into home you could probably start your slide somewhere
> around third
> base :-)
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
>
> >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
>
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