All-Time All-Stars
Bruce "The Bruiser" Meade . . . ASA Hall of Fame selection adds to USSSA and NSA; Three-time MVP in national tournaments; Hit 22 home runs for Nelson's in 1977 ASA; Set record for most .700-plus seasons -- seven, until Dirk Androff posted 10 between 1988 and 1997. Meade's best seasons were .764 for Nelson's in 1977, .757 for Dave Carroll's Skoal Bandits in 1980, .767 for Dave Carroll and Jerry's in 1981 and .746 for Elite in 1985.
Scroll down to see Androff and his stats
Mike Macenko . . . USSSA Hall of Fame selection adds to ISA and NSA
Hit 844 and 830 home runs for barnstorming Steele's Silver Bullets in 1987 and 1988
Mike Macenko . . . Five-time MVP in national tournaments
Buddy Slater, Bruce Meade, Richard Willborn
Helped Nelson's Painting to NSPC and USSSA crowns in 1979
Slater was a two-time MVP for Campbell's Carpets in 1980 (ASA and USSSA); They called Willborn "The Texas Tornado" for his amazing abilities in left field
Chic Downing . . . MVP for Nelson's in 1979 USSSA World Series; That's his father helping him with his hardware
Don Arndt . . . MVP for Howard's in 1984 ISA World Series at age of 50; MVP in the 1972 ASA despite Howard's fourth-place finish
Stan Harvey . . . hit a record 23 home runs for Howard's in 1978 ASA
Stan Harvey, from Soddy Daisy, Tenn., when he played for Golden Gallon out of Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1969
Crankin' Craig Elliott . . . six-time MVP in national tournaments
Crankin' Craig Elliott . . . hit 390 home runs for Elite in 1983 for record 1.93 HR per at bat ratio
The product of Wadley, Ala., had 661 and 751 home runs for Steele's in 1987 and 1988, the years that Mike Macenko had 844 and 830
Rick "The Crusher" Scherr . . . five-time MVP for Howard's in national tournaments
Go To The Look Back At Yesteryear Section for a photo of a beardless Crusher in 1974; Also go to A Look Back At Howard's
Rick Scherr . . . Wisconsin native played most of his career in North Carolina (1977-1988)
Joel Todd of Jerry's and Rick Scherr of Howard's at 1981 USSSA World Series
Todd set record with 31 hits; Scherr was the MVP, and they tied for the home run lead
Bruce Meade, Mike Nye, Ronnie Ford, Ray Fleetwood
They played on the 1976 Jacksonville Warren Motors team that went 94-2 and won the ASA; Nye and Ford were co-MVPs
Click on Steve Dimitry's Slow Pitch Softball History Page for the accomplishments of Nye and Ford in the pro league in 1977-79
Ronnie Ford . . . MVP in the ASA in 1976 and MVP in the Pro League in 1978 . . . played shortstop and left field
Bill Gatti swinging for Elite at the Smoky Mountain Classic . . . played on ASA national champion Jiffy Club out of Louisville in 1972 and many title teams in between, the last being Ritch's in 1989
Big Jim Galloway with County Sports boss Doc Linnehan . . . perennial All-Star in the 1960s . . . hit 400-foot home runs with a wooden bat
H.T. Waller, from little Vernon, Fla., set the ASA national tournament home run record with 16 and was voted the MVP for runner-up Jo's Pizza of Milton, Fla., in 1969 at Parma, Ohio; It was the second year in a row that Jo's was the runner-up team; Also pictured are John Nagy, Cleveland Metro commissioner, and Don Porter, ASA executive director
Bert Smith . . . he held the record that Waller topped; They later played together with Howard's 1973-74 ASA national champions . . . Smith later starred in the pro league in 1977-79
Mighty Joe Young . . . double MVP in 1979 (ASA with Nelco and NSPC with Nelson's); Set record-at-the-time with 337 home runs for Steele's in 1980
Herman Rathman . . . hit 22 home runs for Nelson's in 1977 ASA; co-MVP with Bruce Meade, who also hit 22 HRs
Dick Bartel . . . MVP for Howard's in the 1981 NSPC . . . they called him "The Rocketman"
Charles Wright . . . they called him "The Georgia Peach" . . . 4-time MVP
He holds No. 452 home run ball after breaking Rick Scherr's record; he finished the 1986 season with 503 home runs; the next season Mike Macenko topped that with 844.
Wright, from Columbus, Ga., played on a record six successive Smoky Mountain Classic winners between 1982-87, then on another four in a row
from 1993-96.
Doug Roberson . . . MVP for Steele's in 1988 NSA and for Ritch's/Superior in 1995 ISA
Twice had two grand slams in one inning for Steele's barnstorming team; had 20 and 21 RBI on back-to-back nights and 44 in three games another year
Cecil Whitehead and Dave Steffen . . . Whitehead was MVP for Howard's in the 1988 ISA World Series and for Ritch's in the 1990 USSSA World Series . . . Steffen was the MVP for the R/S Express in the 1992 USSSA World Series and the 1993 ISA World Series
Curtis and Steve Williams . . . Milton, Fla., brothers played for many top teams
They played together in 1976 for H.G. Harder's of Panama City (Steve's first season), then again for Howard's in 1988 (Steve's last season); Curtis played at the age of 42 with Sunbelt/Easton in 1998, and he will be playing in 1999 with W.E.T./Easton out of the Florida Panhandle
Nelson's Mike Parrott and Danny Basso in 1979
Big Bruce Meade takes a big swing for Nelson's
Benny Holt of Chicago . . . MVP in the pro league in 1977
Elby Bushong . . . strong hitter from Phoenix, Ariz., who played for such teams as Campbell's and Capitol
Sweet-swinging Stan Harvey . . . product of Soddy Daisy, Tenn., who starred for many years with the famed Howard's teams out of N.C.
Tom Beall from Georgia starred for Dave Carroll and Howard's in North Carolina
Charles Wright, Craig Elliott, Bill Pollock
They played on the powerful Elite teams in 1983 and 1984
Elby "Boom Boom" Bushong at bat, Bill Ferguson catching in 1978 USSSA World Series
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