Texas Softball Hall of Fame
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The Texas Softball Hall of Fame was founded in 1985 by Ralph Hall, Jr. in the Houston, Texas area. The Texas Softball Hall of Fame has produced over 864 tournaments, 436 leagues, or 1,306 events since its founding. It has also awarded over 15,000 champions, and directed over 600,000 participants. Thay have played adult slow pitch softball games at 29 different locations and on 66 different fields in and around the Houston area. Ralph Hall is a writer of "Ralphisms" and of numerous articles on softball and baseball. His writings contain humor, insight, and a spirituality which few attain. Ralphisms can be related to a Yogi Berra type of humor.
[edit] Ralphisms
Here is a small sample.
- More teams get beat by alcohol and by themselves than by the other teams.
- When you come to the fork in the road, be sure to clean it well before you eat with it.
- My deliverer is coming, but He isn't carrying a pizza.
- Do ump to others as you would have them do ump to you.
- If there was such a person as a perfect umpire, how would an imperfect player recognize him anyway? He could only see his own imperfections. Maybe that player should take the infield of sand out of his own eyes before trying to remove the speck of sand from the empire's eye. Does that sound familiar?
- Yes means yes! No means no! Safe means safe! out means out! Any questions???
- We work. You Play.
- No amount of successful base running will matter, if you are out at home.
- If you respect our history and care about our presence, you may wear the trophy of honor in our future.
