2009
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OTC Sports Welcomes Combat!
In response to customer demand, OTC Sports is now carrying Combat baseball, fastpitch and slowpitch bats and other gear. Combat has been making great slowpitch bats for several years and now they are also a force in little league baseball and fastpitch softball too! Our initial order has been placed and as soon as we [...]
OTC Winter Softball Workout Plan
The workout takes only 30-to-60 minutes per day, so cut back on the recliner-in-front-of-the-TV-time and do work brother! You’ll be amazed at the results of your efforts when the season rolls around!
With the last of the fall games in the book, the question is what are you going to do to improve your game over [...]
OTC Sports adds Worth Sports to the Line-up!
OTC Sports is proud to announce that in addition to being the premier dealer of Wilson/ DeMarini gear we are now an authorized dealer of Worth Sports too. We’ll always strive to bring to you, the serious ballplayer, the best equipment available. We research and field-test the products prior to offering them on our website [...]
NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approves committee action on composite bats
Aug 24, 2009 3:43:21 PM
By Greg Johnson- The NCAA News
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee’s recommendation to remove, at least temporarily, composite bats from NCAA competition. The rules committee proposed the action in July and met again via conference call August 17 after hearing comments from the membership and [...]
The Need for Bat Speed!
While recently browsing a popular slowpitch message board, I happened across a discussion titled: “The Never Hit a Homerun club”. The club has quite a few members too. Perhaps I’ve stumbled upon the last group of players with integrity and honesty left in the game. The members of this club have neither cheated to hit [...]
New DeMarini Bags- Coming this Fall!
UPDATE January 2010: Voodoo Backpacks are in!
Click here for the DeMarini Voodoo Backpack.
DeMarini has been working on new bags for a year now. Ball players, the R&D team, the Art guys and Yours Truly all had a say in the design and features of these bags. While the process, as they often are was [...]
So, Are You Into Leather?
Some people nurture a relationship, and over time with love and trust it develops into an inseparable bond resulting in the two accomplishing great things together. Others are easily seduced, falling prey to the new and exciting. Always ready to jump after the next pretty face. I, myself fall somewhere in between, while appreciating the [...]
Moratorium placed on composite bats
By Aaron Fitt-Baseball America
Nestled amidst all the back-patting and reports of cheery economic and academic prospects during the “State of Baseball” news conference prior to the College World Series, NCAA officials revealed their concern over hyper-performing bats. Specifically, bats that used composite barrels tended to demonstrate significantly enhanced “trampoline effect” toward the end of their [...]
Back to the Basics, My Friend!
So you’ve been flat out stinking it up at the plate lately. Your teammates have shared the typical unsolicited advice, you know, all the “don’ts”; don’t over-swing, don’t take your eye off the ball, don’t over-think it, don’t under-think it, don’t screw it up and don’t wash your underwear! You have tried all your reliable [...]
High School Fastpitch Pitchers Back up a Couple Steps
Softball Pitching Distance to Increase to 43 Feet in 2010-11
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (July 7, 2009/courtesy NFHS) — Effective with the 2010-11 school year, the pitching distance for high school varsity softball pitchers will increase from 40 feet to 43 feet.
