The Girls’s Professional Softball League was lively from 1997-2001. After a number of years of inactivity, it was revived and rebranded in 2004 as Nationwide Professional Fastpitch. The league has six groups: the New England Riptide, the Philadelphia Drive, USSSA Satisfaction, Akron Racers, Chicago Bandits and the Rockford Thunder.
Within the means of rebranding and reforming in 2002, NPF teamed up with Main League Baseball as a part of their ongoing efforts to attach with girls. The MLB signed on as an Official Growth Associate, and with their assist NPF placed on an all-star softball tour in 2003.
2004 was the primary full season for Nationwide Professional Fastpitch. The six groups performed 178 video games. The 2005 season had much less video games, 144, however grew to incorporate worldwide groups from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, China, Russia and Australia.
As with all rising leagues, groups modified cities many occasions from inception to at the moment. Although the New England Riptide has not outright folded as some groups have, they did sit out the 2009 season attributable to financial causes.
One fascinating sport the NPF performs is the “Battle of the Bats.” Each Saturday night time dwelling sport, 4 gamers from every workforce signify a unique bat producer for a house run hitting contest between bat corporations and gamers. The conclusion of the collection takes place on the NPF championship weekend in Kimberly, Wisconsin.
The Girls’s Professional Softball League was not the primary try at a girls’s league; there was one different motion within the Nineteen Seventies. The Worldwide Girls’s Skilled Softball Affiliation was based in 1976 and stayed lively till the 80s. There was a lull within the sport till the 1990’s when the Cowles household based the Girls’s Professional Softball League.
