When someone says Major League Baseball, you probably think of all the teams and players. Cardinals, Padres, Dodgers, Reds, Clayton Kershaw, Joey Votto, etc. When you hear the word softball, you probably think of college teams or some even ask what softball is. Softball has become such a small sport because of baseball taking over. Although, I do not mind that, baseball is an amazing sport to play and watch. Softball is just the same and gets less credit. One person that is very famous in the softball world is a woman named Jennie Finch. To me, she is the best softball player of the last couple of decades, but others do not agree. There was a lot of controversy that happened a few year ago, because people were saying she did not earn
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Growing up, her family were huge Dodgers fans and went to a majority of the games. While attending those games and her brothers baseball games, she fell in love with baseball, which led to her love for softball. At the age of five, her parents signed her up for t-ball. She went on to play in little league while growing up. It was not until her family was on vacation in Iowa that her dad noticed she had an amazing talent. She got a snowball and threw it so far, you could not see it. He ended up building batting cages and pitching machines for her to get the maximum amount of …show more content…
She started playing with Team USA in 1998 during her freshman year of college, and won gold at a superball tournament. In 2004, she was part of the Olympic Gold Medal Softball team. She also was a silver medalist in 2005 at the Japan Cup and World Cup softball tournaments. In 2006, Jennie had to take a short break because she became pregnant with her first son Ace, but very shortly after, returned to the field on Team USA. In 2008, she was also a silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, pitching at speeds over seventy miles per hour. She won numerous awards, medals and titles through those years, but there are way too many to list. (Jennie Finch Biography and
Growing up, her family were huge Dodgers fans and went to a majority of the games. While attending those games and her brothers baseball games, she fell in love with baseball, which led to her love for softball. At the age of five, her parents signed her up for t-ball. She went on to play in little league while growing up. It was not until her family was on vacation in Iowa that her dad noticed she had an amazing talent. She got a snowball and threw it so far, you could not see it. He ended up building batting cages and pitching machines for her to get the maximum amount of …show more content…
She started playing with Team USA in 1998 during her freshman year of college, and won gold at a superball tournament. In 2004, she was part of the Olympic Gold Medal Softball team. She also was a silver medalist in 2005 at the Japan Cup and World Cup softball tournaments. In 2006, Jennie had to take a short break because she became pregnant with her first son Ace, but very shortly after, returned to the field on Team USA. In 2008, she was also a silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, pitching at speeds over seventy miles per hour. She won numerous awards, medals and titles through those years, but there are way too many to list. (Jennie Finch Biography and