Just to wear USA across my chest is a great honor and I am grateful for the opportunities I continue to have.†“I feel privileged to still have the opportunity to play the game I love at this stage in my life. I am surrounded by amazing women and feel blessed to be a part of USA Softball,†said Finch. ![]() €œI am completely honored all the way around to not only play for our great country but also to be recognized out of a group of extremely talented athletes. Finch allowed only two earned runs in 26.0 innings pitched. As a pitcher, she was 5-0 with a 0.54 ERA and 43 strikeouts. ![]() During the summer of 2009, she made an appearance in all 18 games with 17 starts with three home runs and 17 hits. 500 with a home run and three runs scored. Her best event was at the World Cup of Softball where Finch hit. Offensively, Finch was in the Top five in all three events in batting average with a summer average of. In the Championship game of the Canada Cup with two outs left in the seventh, Finch hit a walk-off single that would push a run across the plate and give the United States a 3-2 victory. She was voted the Japan Cup MVP after she not only threw a one-hitter to defending Olympic Gold Medalist Japan but also drove in the only two runs scored, with a double, to help lead the team to a 2-0 victory. Finch’s hits in the Championship Game of both the Japan Cup and Canada Cup secured the USA victory. OKLAHOMA CITY – The Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) and USA Softball are pleased to announce that Jennie Finch (La Mirada, Calif.) and Matt Palazzo (Des Moines, Iowa) were named the USA Softball Female and Male Athlete of the year, respectively, for their accomplishments during the 2009 season.įinch saw time as both a pitcher and at first base on defense and made an impact at the plate on offense. Oh, and if you find any better ones of Jennie Finch, you can send those too □ Email us the link, by sending to: jim (at). (photo by Maddy Flanagan) Tip ‘o the cap to Matt Christiansen for submitting the linkĮditor’s note: We invite our readers to find a better photo of Matt for posting here, at the galleries at Maddy’s photos. (Photo: Matt Palazzo, courtesy of USA Softball) Sounds like a science research project for somebody's 5-foot-2 DD.USA Softball announces 2009 USA Softball Athletes of the Year Similarly, if 1/6 of Big 12 players are 5-4 or shorter, but they make up half the all-conference team, then there's your smoking gun. So the average black player performed much better than the average white player. That's because teams were eager to take on Aaron and Mays and Robinson and Newcombe and Campanella, but weaker A-A players were shut out. The average A-A player was well above the league average. We saw that in the 1950s with African-American players. ![]() But if 1/10 of the best hitters are from California, or 8/10, then there's evidence that they are very underrated, or overrated. Then at the end of the season if 1/3 of the best hitters and 1/3 of the worst hitters are from California, then California players are rated correctly. Suppose that 1/3 of players in the Big 12 from California. If there's no discrimination, then taller players and shorter players would perform about the same.įor example, let's take a conference like the Big 12. Shorter players would perform above the conference average. If shorter players are truly discriminated against, you could find evidence of it in college softball with some research.
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